The Times , 1998, UK, English

Julia Lee warms
U P for the
Varsity match

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Anatole Kaletsky
on the challenge
to Labour

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Vendetta against me, says Prescott

By Philip Webster,
Nicholas Watt,

Paul Wilkinson
and Dominic Kennedy

JpHN PRESCOTT claimed last
right that he was the victim of a
“concerted and shadowy" cam¬
paign to undermine him in his
Hull constituency.

The Deputy Prime Minister told
Tke Times: “I do not know who it is
ot why they are doing it. But for the
last few months, people have been
trying to blacken my name, and it
is time to say something about it It
is a vendetta."

Mr Prescott said that a break-in

last year at his garage in Hull,
when ok) computer papers were
stolen, the theft of dustbins from
outside his home, anonymous calls
by people making false allegations
to local and national newspapers,
and. most recently, claims mat his
son Jonathan was involved in
questionable property deals were
all part of the same {dot

“Somebody wants to get me —
but they are involving my family."
he said.

Mr Prescon believes that there
are at least two possible motives for
the onslaught. As a member of
Labour’s National Executive Com-
mrttee, he was part of the decision

to suspend die Hull Labour Party,
{lending investigation of allega¬
tions of impropriety and poSce
inquiries into expenses claims and
child abuse. "It may be that
someone wants to pay me back for
that,” Mr Prescott said.

The other possibility was that
someone was Dying to get a
message to him as Secretary of
State for the Environment and the
man in charge of local government.
"This is getting beyond a joke.
People have been idling lies to
newspapers, newspapers have in¬
vestigated the claims and found
there is nothing in them."

But Mr Prescott said that his

wife, Pauline, and their son found it
upsetting: "The linked episodes
make you nervous."

Mr Prescott said that after the
dustbins were rifled and personal
correspondence taken, somebody
had telephoned his bank manager
trying to find out private details
about his account.

Some of Mr Prescott’s fears scan
to be justified. Over Christmas, Tke
Times conducted a series of inter¬
views with two researchers who
admitted breaking the law in an
attempt to prove mat his son was
involved in "dodgy" p roperty deals.

The two men, who refused to
give their names, said that they had

been commissioned by Labour
councillors opposed to Mr Prescott
but had gone “freelance" to sell
their so-called revelations.

While investigating their claims.
The Times spoke at lengfih to
Simon Cutting, Jonathan frescotTS
business partner in the Hull-based
Wyke Property Services, who in¬
sisted that he was not making “fat
profits" from his business deals.

The researcher admitted that he
had been Dying to prove that Mr
Prescott junior had been profiting
from people Is misery by buying a
series of repossessed properties
and to prove his claims, heposed as
a Wyke employee to uncover city

McAliskey

wins fight
against
extradition

By Richard Ford, Roger Boyes
Martin Fletcher

RDISfN McALISKEY, the ter
rorist suspect, last night won
her 15-month battle against
extradition to Germany on
IRA bombing charges.

Jack Straw, the Home Sec¬
retary, ruled that Ms
McAliskey, who is suffering
from post-natal depression,
should not be sent to Germany
because the extradition would
be "unjust and oppressive"

However, he said chat his
decision did not reflect on the
quality of the request from
Germany to extradite Ms
McAliskey in connection with
an IRA mortar bombattack an
a British army barracks in
Osnabruk in June, 1996.

Ms McAliskey. 26, is free to
leave the mother-and-baby
unit of the Maudsley Hospital
in Beckenham. Kent, where
she has lived since May but it
is understood that acting On
doctors’ orders, she will not
leave immediately. She gave
birth to her daughter Loinnir
at the Whittington Hospital in
north London.

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Mr Straw's decision, made
only days before Sinn Fein
derides whether to re-enter the
peace talks, was condemned
as “appeasing republicanism M
by hardline Unionists. David
Andrews, the Irish Foreign
Minister, welcomed the deri¬
sion and said it would be "in
the wider interest of peace".

The decision that Ms
McAfisfesy, daughter of Ber
nadette McAliskey. formerly
Bernadette Devlin, the inde¬
pendent nationalist MP, was
to be free was announced in a
brief four-paragraph Home
Office statement
Mrs McAliskey said last
night "I’m- relieved and
delighted. We can now con¬
centrate on getting her well
again." Mrs McAliskey and
tite baby's father, Sean
McCotter, brother of an BRA
terrorist, have been regular
visitors to the hospital unit

The Home Office statement
said that Mr Straw had decid¬
ed that he would not order her
return to Germany because he
considered that the medical
evidence in her case would
make extradition unjust or
oppressive.

The statement said that Mr
Straw had explained his deci¬
sion, reached after he studied
the papers at the weekend, to
the German Government It
added: "It does not reflect in
any way on the fairness of the
German legal system or cm the
quality of the extradition
request"

A spokesman for the Minis¬
try erf Justice in Germany
declined to comment But the
German authorities will be
both relieved and frustrated
by the British nrfusai m extra¬
dite Ms McAliskey.

The case, which exposed
some of the weaknesses of
European extradition law.
hinged on what German de¬
fence lawyers saw as rather
shaky evidence.

As the extradition request
wore cm through Miss
McAliskey’s pregnancy, child¬
birth and post-natal problems,
so the prosecutors’ office
began to realise that the
German Government was let¬
ting itself in for considerable
political embarrassment.

council files showing details on the
rates of 17 pr opert i es owned by Mr
Cutting. He used similar methods
at tite offices of the gas. company
Transco to obtain - information
about another house.

The researcher heads an organta- 7
ation called Research Systems
which lories info people’s financial "
affairs. They have printed headed
notepaper on a'home; computer,
but it doesnot cany an address. !
The police are bejfeved to be aware -
of tiie organisation.

- The Deputy Prime Minister has-
asked his officials Id cany ootan
audit Of the Wytaprqperty deals,
but says that no me has Suggested

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that his son has time anything
imp ro p er . 'This is a curious kind cn
vendetta, " he said. “Shady people
aragping round offering .tidings to
Eranch' ^tilings, to local

afl- lies — but ringing my bank
manager up was about the last
: straw.” .

.. □ Mr Prescott is likely to receive a
mild rebuke from "the Commons
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Baby could be exhumed if
au pair faces murder retrial

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a decision by the five Contact
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UNMARRIED faffiers could
be.given the. same rights of
paimfal responsibility as
named men imcfer a govem-
ment proposal It comes after
protests from men.who discov-
er .titey hjarc. few rights con¬
cerning,the u p br ingin g or the
surname of their child, even if
theylive with the mother. But
critics say ft. would undermine
marriage by' removing the
bias against' unmarried
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From Tunku Varadakajan in boston

LOUISE WOODWARD may
have to face full retrial over the
death of eight-month-old
thew Eappen — and if she
does, her defence lawyers are
prepared to ask for the baby's
body to be exhumed.

The prospect of a new trial
appeared more likely after a
hearing at the Massachusetts
Supreme Court in Boston
yesterday ar which the prose¬
cution argued for the rein¬
statement of the 20-year-old
British au pair’s murder con¬
viction — reduced to man¬
slaughter by the trial judge —
and the defence sought to have
her cleared completely.

The judges are not expected
to rule before the first week of
May. and maybe not until
July.

Although the court has the
option of striking down her
conviction of manslaughter,
observers here believe that it
will nek do so. Nor, it is
believed, will the court rein¬
state her second-degree mur¬
der conviction and send her
back to jail for 20 years.

Instead, a retrial has emerged
as the most likely outcome.

Ms Woodward’s lawyer An¬
drew Good argued yesterday
that the defence had been
dented access to crucial evi¬
dence because the baby had
been buried after the state's
post-mortem examination.
That made it impossible for
the defence to cany out a
second autopsy that might
have helped it to prove that
the skull fracture that caused

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the baby's death had been an
old injury.

Asked by Justice John
Greaney whether he would
need to exhume the body in
the event of a retrial. Mr Good
sakL "Yes, we would ask to
exhume, if it would prove
efficacious."

The argument appeared to
catch the prosecution by sur¬
prise, as it had not been made
before. Replying for the state,
Sabita Singh, an assistant
district attorney, conceded
thar the defence had never had
direct access to the baby's
skull, "although they were,
shown photographs".

Mr Good also argued that
(here had been a mistrial
because Judge Hiller B. Zobel
had failed to instruct the jury
that they could also conclude
that the death had been acci¬
dental. He also criticised
Judge Zobel's refusal to allow
the jury a transcript of some of
the evidence, prompting one of
the appeal judges to remark:
"It* unbelievable that a jury
should ask for a typed tran¬

script and a judge says
“no'. "Ms Singh then argued
that Judge Zobel had abused
his statutory discretion in
substituting his verdict of
manslaughter for the jury's
verdict of murder.

After the hearing. Miss
Woodward’s lawyers played
down the prospect of a retnaL
Mr Good said: “We’re looking
for an acquittal Nothing else
will satisfy us. If there's a
retrial, there win be' no
conviction. “

Mr Good indicated that
money would not be an issue
should tiie case go to a retrial
Mr Schedc said: “WeVebeen
doing it almost for free for ■
some time now. Were stand¬
ing by Louise Woodward."

fait Paul Spellman. Mat¬
thew Eappen’s unde, said:
"Amidst afl tiie attention that’s
been paid to Louise Wood¬
ward and Judge Zobel Mat¬
thew Eappen has been
ignored ... Louise Wood¬
ward's smtence—279 days —
beiitries the sanctity-of Mar-
thews life"

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THE Prince of Wales was admitted to
hospital yesterday for an operation to
correct damage to his right knee.
Surgeons earned out keyhole surgery
to trim part of the cartilage and he was
later discharged.

He left the King Edward VII
Hospital for Officers in central London
walking with the aid of a stick.

A spokeswoman for the Prince said
he was recovering well and intended to
keep his public engagements sched¬

uled for today. He returned to
Highgrovein Gloucestershire, and this
malting is due to fly to Wales by
helicopter. His programme in Wales
includes a tour of the Ford car factory
in Bridgend where he will be ferried
around the plant in a bu ggy . He is then
due to visit a Prince’s Trust volunteer
scheme ax Paris Prison and a young
people's art factory at Femdale. in the
Rhondda Valley, where he wifi also see
restoration work on a derelict chapel.

St James's Palace said last night that
cartilage in the Prince’s knee had been
causing him some discomfort His

personal assistant already in Wales,
said the 49-year-okl Prince had previ¬
ously had a similar operation cm his
other knee in 1992. On that occasion
the surgery to remove damaged carti¬
lage was said to have followed all
injury sustained during an early
morning warm-up exercise. In similar
fashion to yesterdays operation his
hospital visit was umutnounced and
lasted just three hours.

“We have been looking at possibili¬
ties of keeping the walking to a.
minimum," the personal assistant
said, "because the Prince may be in

more discomfort as a result of the
operation."

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noon yesterday at the private hospital
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Captain Soames goes over the ethnic top

DOES Nicholas Soames pro¬
pose the revival of The King's
African Rifles?

The suspicion arose yesrer-
day as Mr Soames stormed in
io question defence ministers.
Jane Griffiths (Lab. Reading
E) had urged the Govern¬
ment to recruit more mem¬
bers of the ethnic minorities
to the Armed Forces. Minis¬
ters sounded pleased with
efforts already made.

As well they might be: the
ministry aims for a 5 per cent
ethnic contingent by 2001.
said John Reid, the junior
minister. He did not mention
his own party's recruitment
policies. The black or Asian
proportion of the Parliamen¬
tary Labour Party is 1.9 per
cent Unless Labour stages a
ruthless cull of white MPs
and replace them with black
ones at by-elections, the
Armed Forces will beat their

POLITICAL SKETCH

political masters at this game.

It was Chen that Mr Soames
rose. A former forces minister
himself, the MP for Sussex
Mid was once Captain
Soames of the Hussars.
Wouldn't it be a good idea, he
rumbled, “if members of the
ethnic minorities were able to
serve together in — er —
bigger blocks?" Soames ar¬
gued chat they would feel less
isolated. The minister found
ft an interesting thought.

Having spent one’s boy¬
hood opposing apartheid, it
feels strange to spot the old
enemy sneaking into the
Commons benches in new,
politically correct clothes, and
making new friends. But

perhaps Mr Soames is right?
If so, why not take his logic to
its conclusion? The King’s
African Rifles would be a
misnomer for soldiers who
were neither African nor the
King's. Perhaps the Queen's
Ethnic Fusiliers might serve?

And, talking of queens,
could Captain Soames have
stumbled upon the key to the
vexed question of gays in the
Armed Forces? The military
objection has always been
that for homosexual soldiers
to serve alongside heterosex¬
ual ones would be awkward.
So haw about a whale regi¬
ment? Recruiting posters
could be placed in Old Comp¬
ton Street in Soho. This could

give the Gay Gordons a
whole new meaning.

Another former officer
leaping into battle yesterday
was the former Captain Bra¬
zier —.now the Tory MP for
Canterbury. Tali, good-
n am red, guileless, fearless .
and slightly dazed. Brazier is
an ex-Para who reminds us of
the story about the Gurkhas
who gritted their teeth but
saluted on receiving orders to'-
jump from 3,000ft. — and
were enormously relieved
when told they could take
parachutes.

It seems that a tittle note
had found its way from
Brazier to the chair. "I under¬
stand,'' said Madam Speak¬
er, calling him to speak, “that
Mr Brazier served with The
Parachute Regiment.”

Brazier rase proudly. “A
tine big man!" said the minis¬
ter. Dr Reid, in slightly

Soames: answer to ..
ethnic recruitment

cheeky Scots tones: Captain
Brazier’s mission was to
mount a counter-offensive
against rumours that the
Paras face the axe. He spoke

. ..of .their glories, fiddling with.
: a ghost parachute-toggle
somewhere near the beltline.
“ Nobody’s talking about dis¬
banding the Paras, “ protested
Reid; — with the urgency of
one anxious to reassure a.
nervous public that, the un-
■ leashing into civilian life of
thousands of Paras —‘.'which;
could make Care . in the :
. Community look Eke ateddy-
• bears' picnic—was ruled curt

It was good to see the
Secretary of State. George
Robertson, looking so frisky
after his recent antHrax-
rnoculation photo-opportuni¬
ty. “I was so satisfied it was
. safe," he purred. "I plan to
have the three further injec¬
tions that are advised. “Tve
never felt better in my ...
aaargh .”'.and he slumped.-
- over the dispatch boxl ."

Sorry. I made the ending.
up-

Unmarried fathers
may be given equal
right over children

By Richard Ford, home correspondent

UNNERSAL PICTORIAL PRESS

UNMARRIED fathers could
be given the same rights of
parental responsibility as
married men under govern¬
ment proposals published
yesterday.

The move comes after grow¬
ing protests from men who
discover they have few rights
over the upbringing, surname
and adoption of their child —
even if they live with the
mother in a stable relation¬
ship. But academics and fam¬
ily groups said last night that
the proposals published by the
Lord Chancellor would fur¬
ther undermine marriage by
removing the bias against
unmarried fathers.

lord Irvine of Lairg’s paper
puts forward two options. One
would alter the law to create
an automatic link between
biolo^'cal parentage and re¬
sponsibility, so that all fathers
would be responsible for their
children whatever their mari¬
tal status at the time of the
child’s birth.

That would, however, be
open to challenge on the
ground that the man claiming
responsibility was not the
father. A mother would also
have the right to override the
father’s rights in the case of a
child bora after a rape or in a
violent relationship.

The second option would
give an unmarried man auto¬
matic parental responsibility
if he signed the birth register
with the mother. Under exist¬
ing law. an unmarried father

has no such rights or responsi¬
bilities unless he and the
mother sign an agreement
that is witnessed and regis¬
tered in court, or unless the
farher has sought a parental
responsibility order from the
court

The cxkisu Italian paper
says: “Discrimination be¬
tween married and unmarried
fathers in respect of parental
responsibility is increasingly
seen as unacceptable.

“It is clearly impossible to
assume that most unmarried
fathers are irresponsible or
uninterested in their children,
and do not deserve a legal role
as parents,”

In 1996.232,663 births — or
35.8 per cent of die total
registered in England and
Wales — were outside mar¬
riage. Of those, more than
180.000 were registered with
the father's details, but there
were only 5387 parental re¬
sponsibility' orders. The small
number of agreements and
orders refleas ignorance of the
law, with many people assum¬
ing that an unmarried father
has responsibility if both part¬
ners register the birth.

Another anomaly is that
unmarried men can be forced
to support their children fi¬
nancially even if they do not
have parental responsibility.

Under existing law. a child
can be adopted without the
consent of an unmarried
father without parental re¬
sponsibility, The child's sur¬

name can also be changed and
he or she can leave the country
without his consent

Jim Barton, chairman of
Families need Fathers, said
the changes were long over¬
due. “An awful lot of lathers
assume they have parental
responsibility but when the
relationship with the mother
of the child breaks down they
find they have few rights."

Adrian Rogers, of the Con¬
servative Family Institute,
welcomed the proposal even
though he admitted that it
would weaken marriage. He
said: “The rights of children
should be based on their
genetic father. The genetic
parents should have responsi¬
bility. In the long run that
might strengthen marriage."

A man who lost a lengthy
battle ro force his two-year-old
son to be registered with his
surname said the proposals
would end discrimination
against unmarried lathers.
Mark Dawson failed in his
bid to have his son named
after him last August when
Appeal Court judges over¬
turned a previous court ruling
that the boy should be called
Alexander Guy Dawson.

Mr Dawson. 34, from Wel¬
lington, Somerset, said, “It
would be difficult to overstate
how much I am in favour of
this move." Mr Dawson, who
has spent thousands of
pounds on legal fees, hopes to
win the right to take his case to
the House of Lords.

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Euro poll based on party list

By Philip Webster

POLITICAL EDITOR

VOTERS are to be deprived of
the right ro support individual
candidates under polling
plans for next year's European
elections announced by Jack
Straw yesterday.

The Home Secretary disap¬
pointed the Liberal Demo¬
crats. the Conservatives and
electoral reform campaigners
by opting for a system that will
give additional power to the
leaderships of all political
parties. The Tories said it had
shown power had gone to
Labour's head.

Mr Straw has decided to
adopt the so-called “dosed"
system under which voters
will cast their votes for the
party rather than the individ¬
ual candidate. The part}’ itself
will draw up its list of candi¬
dates in its own order of pref-

VOTERS WANT RIGHT TO SAY NO

Many people are so un¬
happy with the choice of
candidates that they want
the right to register an
abstention. A number have
written to the commission
on electoral reform bead¬
ed by Lord Jenkins of
HiUhead. which has been
set op by the Prime Minis¬
ter, suggesting that the

ballot paper should pro¬
vide the chance to support
“none of the above". Lord
Jenkins, who is receiving
about 40 letters a day, visits
Cardiff today at the start of
a tour of Britain to consult
the public on whether they
want the first-past-the-post
system changed and. if so.
how.

erence. Depending on the
number of votes gained by the
parties in 11 new regional con¬
stituencies across England,
Scotland and Wales, those at
the top of lists will be elected.

Mr Straw, at the urging of
Paddy Ashdown’s party and
the constitutional . reform
group Charter 8S, considered
whether Britain should have

the same system as in Belgium
— which gives people the right
to vote for a party’s entire list
or have a choice of individual
candidates within the Est But
the Home Secretary rejected
the proposal.

The Belgian system had a
“fundamental and incurable
weakness", Mr Straw said. It
could mean that the candidate

receiving the highest personal
vote was not elected, while the
candidate receiving the lowest
personal vote was elected.

Sir Brian Mawhinney. the
Shadow Horae Secretary, said
thar Mr Straws decision
showed that power bad gone
to his head. Closed lists were a
denial of true democracy, he
added. "The British people
will react badly."

Charter 88 welcomed the
derision, to introduce PR but
said that the dosed list left
power to choose candidates
solely in the hands of the party
machine and “this could not
be good for democracy?.

Robert Maclennan. the lib¬
eral Democrat constitution
spokesman, said: "Everyone
taking in this debate came
down in favour of open lists,
and I am disappointed that the
Government have not been
swayed by thar consensus."

NEWS IN BRIEF

Brown declares war
on fraud in Europe

Britaln yesterday used itspresidency of the EU to call on
member states to answer individually for biffious of
pomkfe of EU funds that have been subject to wastes fraud

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that he would call on all 15 states' to csplainwhat their
governments were doing 1 to combat the abuses that are
identified each year by the Court of Auditors, the EtJ’s
financial wutthdog. “We must deal with tfafe issue. If
countries are shown to be using money inco rrecfly they may
- have topaytfback." he said. Hie last auditors’ report, in
^November, revealed that 5.4 per-cent of the EU budget

' representing. EiS billian, eouJd not be accounted for. -

Sinn Fein silent on funds

Shm Fein has foiled to provide details of. Ss income and
overseas donations 7 to the inquiry into party fu n d i ng. A
. party official told the Conusuttee on Standards in PubKc
Lffie'thaf Sinn Fein had yet to deride whether to co-operate
with the inquiry. Sinn Fein yesterday refused to return to
the Stormont peace talks at toe end of ft»T7-day suspension.
Geriy Adams, the president, said the party would decide
howahd when to return adler meeting Tony Blair this wedL

Passive smoking rebuke

The World Health Organisation yesterday accused tire
tobacco industry of misl eading the public about'its report
on inssm anwi^JM Sikon, bead of. the WHO's
cancer programme; .said industry spmdoctors had used
tipoffs to the media to highlight passages in a confidential
report which ffiey (noademt &nwinUe to thar cause.
Professor Sifcora said the knyear study had found a
relationship between, lung cancer and passive smoking.

Nurse dies on holiday

A more has drowned wink trying to save her 69yearold
mother off Gnm Catnria. JacqndH: Domrefly, 34* from
Middletown. €b Armagh, saw her mother, Amite; get into
diffiadfiesas she swam. WhnemestB^tiitotirepaxrsaanto
have been.cn ughtin astrong cu rren t lifeguards managed
to ri»»r : Mre a D&sje^r, a retired matron, and last night
she was in intensive care. Her other daughter, who was also
on the break was said to be in shock. ■

StPauI’s casts wider Net

St Paul's Cathedral launched an Internet page where
callers can check opening fines* read a diary of events,
download a.map, and take a virtuafitaltty tour. The
cathedral also intends toiose the site to spread tiw Christian
message, and wig offer me mo r abi lia for safe online later
this year to pay the rtummg costs. The £5,000 needed to
design the page was provided through sponsorship from
JEST. Ike address is: httpr/ZstpaufeJoudonangBcaiLorg

Duke’s open house

The Duke of Northumberland is offeringbis. homes in
Ltihdon and the North East as a r csour o c for students and
schoolchildren. Alnwick Castle In Northumberland and
Syon House brisk-worth. West London, will become bases
for stadjesou anything from gamekeepjmg to the history of
art.. The I2tft\dnfce hopes the wealth of knowledge,
expmencean^Hiaterial^^

jjp benefit the public and spread understanding of its rede.

A1 Fayed blackmailed

Mohwned A1 Fayed, the owner of Hatreds, was Ihe target
of a £75,000 extortion plot (bat was foiled hut March, the
Old Baxky was told Geoffrey Grossly, 49, unemployed, of
Lancaster, who »s «h*W blind after aroad accident, admitted
Marik mail. Simon Peach, 32, also from Lancaster, admitted

ittempting fb: obtain p r o p e r ty by deception. The case was

adjourned for medical reports and both men will be
sentenced in May. ...

Rail offer to jobless

Unemployed people in Grad Yarmouth or Lowestoft WOT
be able to have free rail travel to Noryvidi if they have a job
interview, under a trial scheme introduced by Anglia
Railways. The rail company is offering the unemployed up
to ax free return jonracys and if they get a job, a hatfprice
season ticket for a.month. If Che three-month trial Is
snccessfoL tire scheme will be extended to the rest of tire
artwork in EastAnglfa. * - - :

Carers need video skills

Knowing how to repair a video or understanding f unky 1
music are more important than medical sitifis in tr eatin g
seriously 31 psychiatric patients, according to it study into a
new land of mental Health carer. “If yon are able to fix their
video or do something useful for than, you can gain their
trust and it becomes much caster to treat (bon," said . Matt
Mtnjen, of the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, which
launched the study called Keys to Engagement

Wonder ofWoOlworths

Safes staff at a Woohvorths store won half bf the National

Lottery jackpot on Saturday, but will keep their EAeuatboitr:-
johsLThe entire weekday workforce at Woohwrths in Leek.
Staffordshire, formed the 14-strong syndicate that won just -
over £4 nuffiou. Eileen Holland, 40. jrffthe store' for 23
years, said: “Ift part of my fife. We are more like a family
than workmates." The winning numbers — 4, U, 14.39,43
and 44 — were bought on a lucky dip ticket at Woblworlhs.

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towards her injuries, reports Simon de Bruxelles

8AMAMTHAPWTCHARO

THE babysitter severely dfe-
figured after a hired attacker
pustakenjy Threw nitric sudd
in her face is determined not
to let the injuries ruin her life.
Beverley Hammett’s fortitude
, has amazed her family, as
wdl as her plastic surgeon. •
Miss Hammett; 21, recently

resumed her tr aining ae a
nursery nurse after undergo¬
ing nine operations in the 20
months since the a*fa rfc : s he
expects to need at least six
more. Despite permanent
scarring, she says she is a.
more confident more positive
person than she was before
the attack.

Th e fireman's daughter.
from Seaton, east Devon, was

fee vi ctim of a feud between
Peter Humphrey and his
estranged wife Susan, for-
whom she was working as a
babysitter when she opened
the door to the attacker. She
was nec in court yesterday to'
hear H umphr ey jailed for
ordering the attack on his
wife

On fee evening concerned,
Mrs Humphrey had gone
out, leaving Mbs Hammett-
wife her three children. The
babysitter was watching tele¬
vision when she heard fee
latch on the garden gate and
opened fee front door to
investigate. '

Mrs Humphreys son.
Adam, now 14. told Exeter
Crown Court feat he watched
from fee top of the stairs as
fee arid was thrown in Miss
Hammett's face, producing a
violent hissing sound and a ■
cloud of white smoke.

At one point in the trial, 1 it
was suggested feat-'Mrs.
Humphrey had arranged the
attack herself Gilbert Gray,
QC, for Humphrey, saidshe
probably intended 10 have fee
add thrown at fee frontdoor,
but foe idol went horribly
wrong when Miss Hammett
opened it at the .wrong
moment. •• • : • V

Alter yesterday's verdict,
police have renewed fee hunt..
for fee 6ft man who carried
out fee attack. They have, •
issued a pfaotafit of a man
who stopped at a pub in .
Seaton an fee night of fee
attack arto asked directions to
feasible where MTST Hvtitt-
pftrey lived. An anonymous
businessman hair-offered a-
00.000 reward forirrfberoa-

Bevedey Hammett was:
babysitting for Susan
Humphrey, below :

don leading to his camdiun-
> Miss Hammett's remark¬
able presence of mind in fee
seconds after fee attack may
have -saved.her'sight, and
■ pOssibtybCT'life. She said: “As
soon as' fee liquid hit zzie, I
knew it was scene kind of
chemical becauseit made the
skin on my face' tingle like
. there were thousands of tiny
ants crawling over iL ."

“Although I was shocked I
tried to keep calm and think
logically. I could not .open my
eyes ter see if artyonewas still
there because I -was worried
fee'arid* "WbOW sting them.
The tomes were chofcmg me,
bat I knew 1 had to rinse off.
ffite‘KJhid as soon as pd&atte

- and I iradeit to fee Jaafeen. I
, was airiified to hospital but

by then I was in so much pain
I was drifting in and out of
consridnsness. I needed a lot
of skin; grafts and I wore a

- mask to protect ruy face, but I
fcnre refused to let this stop

ad-uev-

mg whaf I hope for.

“Pteople tend to look at me
when X pass them in the

■ street, but It is. mainly'child*

■ rot Who’'are .-'too young to
understand why I took differ¬
ent 1 have gained a great deal
froth what has happened. It

/.has.made me a more confi-

- debt and positive person. 1'
believe firings happen for a'
reason hnd this is no
exception.

\ “So many people have-been
• so kind to me in unexpected
ways that it has made me
realise we should not be quick
to judge others. Probably the
most important lesson 1 have
learnt is to five for the
moment because no one can
. be sure what is around fee
corner."

Doctors have told her that
she would have been blinded
by-fee attack if she had nor
been wearing spectacles and
would have died if she had
swallowed so much as a drop
of -fee concentrated nitric
add. ;

Miss Hammett’s mother,
Val said yesterday that her
daughter . had never ex¬
pressed bitterness about- her.
ntjories and was more con:,
corned for fee welfare of
Adam Humphrey than fee
was for her own. She said:
“Despite all fee trips to hospi¬
tal and all fee operations,
Beverley has never- com¬
plained about the pam and
fee has helped us all to be
mare ,-positive about fee
future She was more worried
about the psychological effect
cm Adam titan the physical
effect on herself.

.“Even when she was so
weak that she could only get
about in a wheelchair, fee .
never became tatter about
what had happened; to her.
She"never said, “Why me?’".. .

.’’.Sentencing Humphrey, the
judge told him: “You carry
the major share of the respem-
sttatity for ruining, a young
iifcL-For the rest of her fife
Beverley Hammett will re¬

Beveriey Hammett has had nine operations on her face since the arid attack

main cruelly disfigured as a
consequence of your evfl act.

“The terrible irony of this
case is that she was not the
intended victim. You intend¬
ed that your wife should have
nitric arid thrown in her face.
Miss Hammett wears glass¬
es, but your wife would m all
probability have been blinded
as well as permanently dis¬
figured.”

Miss Hammett was the
first chemical bums, victim in
the world to be treated wife a
revofufionary technique for
setting skin grafts. S ur g e ons
at the Frenchay Hospital in
Bristol used strips of “plastic

skin” developed in America to
• encourage her own skin to
regrow.

The artificial skin, called
Integra, costs £1.000 for a 6in
strip. It consists of a layer of
silicon on top of collagen
sponge. The strips were
placed on her face and kept
there for three weeks while
her own facial tissue regener¬
ated within the layer of
spooge. The silicon covering
was men peeled off and skin
from her legs grafted onto her
face. ... ,Y‘

She had to wear a protec¬
tive mask for months to
protect the grafts and says fee

pain was so intense she spent
days drifting in and out of
consciousness.

Andrew Bind, her consul¬
tant plastic surgeon, said:
“She was aware she was
setting herself up for some
pretty revolutionary treat¬
ment." He said she bad made
an amazing psychological re¬
covery and praised her cour¬
age in being "prepared to
show herself to the world as
an example of what can be
done, and also some of the
problems’.”

He added: “She is a certain
type of person who is gang to
get on wife Slings."

Husband gets
12 years for
‘heinous crime’

By Simon de Bruxelles

PETER HUMPHREY was
an obsessively jealous hus¬
band who set up a bungled
add attack dial left his wife's
teenage babysitter scarred
for life. Yesterday he was
jailed for 12 years.

Humphrey. 53, swayed in
fee dock and had to be
supported by a prison officer
when he was convicted fay a
jury of eight men and four
women of hiring an unidenti¬
fied man to throw concentrat¬
ed nitric arid in the face of his
estranged wife, Susan, when
be found out that she had a
new boyfriend.

His plan went wrong
because Mrs Humphrey was
out at the moment fee
attacker, who has yet to be
caught, arrived at fee family
home. Instead of Mrs Hum¬
phrey, ft was Beverley
Hammett, a babysitter, then
19, who answered the door
and had the the add thrown
in her face.

Despite Humphrey's deni¬
als. a jury at Exeter Crown
Court found him guilty by
unanimous verdict in lea
than three hours.

Judge Graham Cottle told
him: “You have been found
guilty of the most heinous
crime. There are no words to
describe the character of a
man who behaves as you did.

“Your intention was feat, if
you could not have your wife,
you would make sure no one
else would want her. This
was a cold, calculating and
premeditated attack. It was
not a sudden loss of control
It was planned in such a way
as to ensure as you believed
it, feat you would get away
with it There has been no
hint of remorse. You are an
evil man.”

Before the attack. Hum¬
phrey set himself up with an
alibi by arranging a blind
date wife two sisters in a
country pub eight miles from
his wife^ home in Seaton,
east Devon.

Police who arrested him
shortly after the aflat* found

Humphrey: arranged

alibi for time of attack

two drums of nitric add in
the boot of his car. they were
due to be delivered to a client
of his cleaning supplies com¬
pany fee next day. The
tamperproof seals had been
broken and the chemical
inside slightly diluted as
H umphre y replaced fee add
wife water.

After the trial. Devon and
Cornwall police said they
would investigate the rela¬
tionship between Mrs Hum¬
phrey and a married police
officer who worked on the
inquiry. She had known the
officer before the attack but
had since started an affair
wife him. In court she admit¬
ted she was having a relation¬
ship but did not name fee
officer.

Keith Fortlock, the Deputy
Chief Constable, said: “Hie
force is not able to confirm
the substance of these allega¬
tions at this stage as it has
only just been brought to our
attention, but the matter has
been noted by the Chief
Constable and will be investi¬
gated in accordance wife our
procedures.”

Miss Hammett said of the
verdict “Tins is a great relief.
I believe justice has been
done at last"

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By Phxup Delves Broughton

A HEAD TEACHER suffer¬
ing from cancer after: bring
exposed to asbestos at school
yesterday won damages esti¬
mated at £150,000.

Brenda Cope sued Cheshire
County Council and Chester
City Council after contracting
asbestoszs during inspections
of a school boiler. Mrs Cope, '
now head of an infants school
near Warrington, which was
not tire subject of the legal
action, accepted the damages
after the councils admitted
liability at the High Court in
Manchester. Mrs Cope had
called members of teaching
and clerical staff at her for¬
mer. unnamed, school to give
evidence on her behalf.

The case revolved around
the replacement of.-a school
boiler in fee early 1970s. Mrs
Cope was exposed to asbestos,
during fee examinations.

Shortly before the hearing
was to begin, lawyers for the
two councils agreed a settle¬
ment wife Mrs Cope’s repre¬
sentatives. Mr Justice Holland
agreed fee undisclosed - dam¬
ages in a brief hearing and

'ordered feat the defendants
paid tile costs of fee action.

A spokesman for Cheshire
County Council said later
*Tbe case relates back to-the
early IpTOs at a.school which
had a boiler replaced. As head
of school she was responsible
for inspecting all wars carried
out on fee school..,

“Whilst the head would not
normally be involved in tins
work and although she had
only, minimal exposure to
asbestos we bdieve that it was
suffideni for her tra^calfy to
contract asfaestosis. .

“Teachers are no longer
responsible for inspecting
waric.” . -

• Mrs Cope said: “Ilm vary,
happy ana .now I'm going to
get on wife my life.”

Alan Grant, of fee Health
and Safety Corrnrrissian. said:
This is fee first time .we've
ever, heard of a teacher con¬
tracting asbestosis at work.
There are many ways of indir¬
ectly contracting asbestosis."

“The commission is' this
week discusring a complete
ban on asbestos.” ‘;

By John Goovbovy

BETTING shops are to offer
odds on teams, «*”*“•**-
individual drivers.forthefirst
time in fbrmtila Ooe races
after the secret agreement ty
the McLaren team to fee fee
result of fee Austrian Grand
prix on Sunday. . ■ •

Bookmakers and McLaren
wen; bombarded wife com¬
plaints from fee P*^
day. Some^ KjS'

to£l.a» oh David Cgdfearf

winning the race, only fcr fee
Britishdriver to ■*o*JZ*
team-mate, MS® TJaWanerv
of Finland, tofinish first

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THE stare of Moatjr Python
yesterday accused fee distrib¬
utors of their film The Life of
Brian of treating then wife
as little respect as they them¬
selves had shown fee Messiah.

■ Python (Monty) Pictures,
which is owned by fee surviv¬
ing members of fee Flying
Chens, is smog Channel 4
and PaJragon Entertainment
Corporation, of Ca n a d a.

The Pythons — John
Cleese. Eric Idle, Terry
Jones. Michael Palin and
Terry GSDiam — were in
America as fee case began at
fee High Court, encouraging
speculation feat feey wiighl
reunite for a tour.

‘ James Munby, QC feeir
barristcr, told Mr Justice-
Rattee that fee licenee to
show Tire Life of Brian in
Britain had been sold to
Channel 4 by Paragon at an
absurdly low price and on
imp roper terms.

The judge said he had not
seen fee film, winch fas
earned more than £40 nril-
fioa since its release in 1978,
hat knew of fee cont ro v er sy ft

Pcdnt.takmii WilHain HJIlyeStaday introduced team
be«ing for the Brazilian Grahd, Prix an Mardh29

ale de rAutotnoo-—j- — .

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nAHWMrIUlEm'itu la-art sit tTv»

frrri bend wdtdd be allowed to
take first place at the finish.

; In Britain,-; where about
£4mflBqn is'lksr annually mi

Ihewsrld chamjacmship, W3-

?iam WiTI coiri -nnmilP outride

McLaren had known about
fee agreement Hakkinen had
■been qumsed at &8 and
Coultharti at! 9^. Graham

had caused. It tells fee story
of an unwilling mesriah in
die Holy Land 2L000 years
ago, and critics said it was
blasphemous.

. Mr Manbysaid feat Hand¬
made Films had agreed to
fond fee film for half the
profits and tython agreed to
hand over fee copyrig ht of
fee screenplay. The contract
allowed Python access to fee
accounts to assess sales and
fee right to refuse cuts de¬
manded by local censors.

The contract terms re¬
mained in force when Hand¬
made sold the rights to. its
library to Paragon in 1994.
Python rfahns the terms have
bee n brea ched.

Paragon sold the British
biuadcastrights of the Hand¬
made Ebrary to ChanaeM for
EL4 million m 1996. wife &30-
year licence to show The Life
of Brian. Missing was an
insistence feat fee Shn be
diown uncut This licence
was notionafiy valued at

£65:000. a sum Mr Munby

called “wholly inadequate".

The ease continues.

Sharpe, Hill's spokesman,
said feat punters should have
taken fee possibility of such a
deal into account because the
practice has been common-

He called for team instruc¬
tions to be announced public¬
ly. However, he said feat
betting on teams would be
introduced for fee first time
fen' the Brazilian Grand Prix
on March 29.. Ladbrokes is
alk> considering introducing
team beating.

Mel Goldberg, a sports
solicitor wife Epstein Grower
and Michael Freeman, said
yesterday feat, under fee Bet¬
ting and Gaining Lotteries Act
of I963. it was oossibie feat

punters.. could sue both
McLaren and Coulfeard.

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Diana trust gives
£lm each to her
Big Six charities

Head says

schools on

By Kathryn Knight
and Daniel McGrory

THE six favourite charities, of
Diana, Princess of Wales,
were told last night that they
would receive about El million
each from the first E13 million
awards from the fund set up in
her memory.

Trustees answered criticism
that they had taken too long to
hand out the £40 million by
choosing charities and causes
dearest to the Princess at the
time of her death.

About 100 more charities
will be told today that they are
to receive smaller awards. The
majority reflect the Princess's
interest in children and vul¬
nerable youngsters.

Last night's awards went to
the “Big Six” — projects in¬
volving children, the home¬
less. leprosy and Aids. Many
are expected to bear her name
as a permanent memorial.

A special award will be
made to the victims of land¬
mines, which was of particu¬
lar concern to the Princess, but
the trustees have yet to agree
how best the money should be
spent. No one charity will
benefit and instead a special
conference will be held involv¬
ing agencies working with
victims to decide which local
projects which should receive
awards. A spokesman said:
“The Princess was very keen
in the area of rehabilitation.

Ten mUlhur scratch- .
cards bearing tire signa¬
ture of Diana, Princess ’•
of WaKs, tyeift on sale
yesterday n> “tremen¬
dous demand". The

cards, designed by the

pools firm litilewoods,
will raise money, for the
Diana, Princess ' of
Wales Memorial' Fond.
Each card, with the sig¬
nature over a pink rose;
will raise 20 pence for ’
the fund, with little-
woods matching tfae top
prize of £25.000 with a
similar : donation.. The..
' scheme was Launched at
a newsagents tn ; Green-/
ford. West London,
where 100 tickets were
sold within four hours.

employment training and help
to families of victims and we
would wish to emphasise this
in the awards we will give."

Trustees said last night that
future awards, the next of
which will be announced this
summer, will encompass the
same themes.

Charities such as Great
Ormond Street Hospital for
Children. Centrepoim. the
English National Ballet, Royal
Marsden Hospital, National
Aids Trust and the Leprosy

Earl defends move
to sell souvenirs

By Daniel McGrory

EARL SPENCER yesterday
defended his decision to sell
his own souvenirs of his sister
to the thousands visiting her
grave on his Althorp estate in
Northamptonshire.

After condemning the bur¬
geoning market in “tacky"
memorabilia that has grown
up around the death of Diana.
Princess of Wales,. the earl
denied last night tii2£ he was
cashing in on her memory. He
has instructed the local firms %
who are to produce the souve-T
nirs and gifts that none must 1 '.'

feature the Princess’s face or
name.

Nor will any of the designs
cany logos referring to the
Queen of Hearts or any other
of the Princess’s popular nick¬
names. “Every penny is going
to the memorial fund, and
better to create a range of
memorabilia that reflects her
family estate,” a spokesman
said yesterday.

The logo for the souvenirs,
which will indude plates,
'.cups/jewellery and key fobs,
'will feature.the Althorp crest

Mission were told exactly how
much they were getting
yesterday.

There was initial confusion
last night when the nine
trustees of the Diana, Princess
of Wales Memorial Fund,.who
include the Princess' sister.
Lady Sarah McCorquodale,
appeared unsure about when
and how the awards should be
announced. There was also a
dispute about the decision to
give the announcement to a
television network on an ex¬
clusive basis.

One of the major recipients
is the Great Ormond Street
hospital, where the money will
fund a radical new project for
child care in a specially de¬
signed community centre in
London.

The Centrepoint charity for
the homeless is to get funding
for an outreach project near
King’s Cross in London. The
Princess, who was a regular
visitor to Centrepoint's
projects, had agreed shortly
before her death to open the
sheltered accommodation for
young homeless. She was also
planning to take her sons to
visit the refuge.

A grant will be given to the
English National Ballet to
help fund three areas of partic¬
ular concern to the Princess.
These include the creation of
new productions for young
performers, helping disadvan¬
taged groups oF schoolchil¬
dren to visit tiie ballet, and
assisting in the professional
welfare of dancers.

Over 4000 charities applied
to the fund from all over the
world.

The trustees yesterday de¬
fended the seven-month wait
for the first payouts saying
they had to agree specific rules
about which charities should
benefit- “What took so long
was to agree the .rules of how
this fund should work.” a
spokesman said.

Fund trustess have not de¬
rided how quickly they will
disperse all the money it has
so far received. The sales of tiie
tribute album recorded in her
memory could eventually
bring in £100 million and the
income from sales of sanc¬
tioned memorabilia and sou¬
venirs is described as
“incalculable".

By David Charter

EDUCATION CORRESPONDENT

A LEADER of independexu-
schooT headteachers criticised
the morality of top politicians
yesterday, for letting down
schools which try to promote

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Ffion Hague attended a traditional day for monarchy at Westminster Abbey with tier husband, the Tray leader

as

enjoys a

By Andrew Pierce
and Alan Hamilton

TONY BLAIR yesterday sig¬
nalled his support for the
modernisers at Buckingham
Palace, led by the Prince of
Wales, who are pressing for
sweeping changes to the
monarchy.

The rapidly evolving pro¬
posals to improve the Image
of the Royal Family is expect¬
ed to dominate discussions at
tiie Prime Munster’s regular
audience with tiie Queen
today. Downing Street threw
its weight behind the pace of
change which has caused a
deepening rift with the palace
old guard, apparently led by
the Duke of Edinburgh.

Buckingham Palace dis¬
missed reports that the Duke
of Edinburgh was opposed to
changes and said stories of a
new wave of reforms were
“mere speculation".

The Queen, meanwhile,
took a tho r o ughl y traditional
view of her monarchical role
yesterday when she stepped
into the forecourt of Buck¬
ingham Palace to hand a
gold and silver baton to a
Malaysian, relay runner for
tiie first leg of its journey to

# *

Tony Blair is backing plans to modernise die Palace

this year’s Commonwealth
Games in Kuala Lumpur.

Teams of runners vrifi car¬
ry the baton to Malaysia,
where its arrival in Septem¬
ber will signal the start of the
16th games. The Queen, who
also attended the animal
Commonwealth Day service
in Westminster Abbey, along
with Tony and, Cherie Blair
and Wilfeujl and Ffion
Hague; wflj dose tiie games
during, .a- visit to Malaysia
and BruncUii the autumn.

The forecourt ceremony

was a brief interlude of order
and familiarity during a per¬
iod of fevered speculation
over the future style of mon¬
archy. As the Queen met
games officials; and British
and Malaysian athletes who
will compete in the most
important world games idler
the Olympics, it was notice¬
able that ft* great majority of
men bowed as they shook
hands, and all tire women
curtsied, with file exception of
the track-suited . Kelly
Holmes, the England, run¬

ner, who declined to bend a
reverential knee.

Bowing and curtsying are
now: officially out, according
to a letter sent by the Palace
to Lord lientenants through¬
out Britain two weeks ago.
The Qneexihas never insisted
.on it. but as part.pt a-major
review of royal style’-' fa; tiie
wakeoif the death of.Qnna,
Princess of Wales; Palace
officials thought it prudent to
issue a reminder. -

After a weekend of intense
speculation following hut
month's meeting of the Way
Ahead Group, the Royal
Family's strategic planning
committee; it became dear

favour of a review^of^dmost
all aspects of the running of
her Household, in the hope
of pre-empting government
pressure <0 sum down' the
whole apparatus of monar¬
chy. Palace officials are
aware that, when 'serious
discussions oil tiie' future of
the Civil.list begin with the.
Treasury next year, there will
be strong political pr ess ur e
for a much[leaner monarchy.

^Modern monarchy.’^age 19
. Court, page20;

David Crawford appeared
to condemn tite Bn^ign Secre¬
tary Robin Code, the Conser¬
vative leader WSliam Hague
and lord Irvine of Lairg, tiie
Lord Chancellor, in a speech
to the annual conference of the
Society of Headmasters and
Headmistresses of Indepen¬
dent Schools.

Mr Crawford, chairman of
the soriely and head of
^CdstnnlsVCollegiate School,

- Bristol, said that schools were
bring left to take the moral
lead, but it was “immensely
hypocritical'* that “standards
tolerated in other walks of life
are' not tolerated amongst
heads or teachers".

Without naming any potiti-

- dans, he told the conference at
Grantham. Lincolnshire: “It is
how accepted that a Cabinet
minis ter can leave his wife,
take up with another woman
and expect tiie taxpayer m foot
the bill for accompanied visits
to other shores." Mr Cook’s
marriage broke up enter his
afiair with his secretary.

Mr Crawford added: “Co¬
habitation at party confer¬
ences by unmarried members
is - all right and ordering
£8,000 beds for official apart¬
ments is not untoward. Would'
woretam our jobs as heads if
we behaved similarly?'’

Mr Hague shared a Black-.
pool hold reran at last year's
parly ctmferencewitii his then
fiaricte, JFfidn Jenkins. Beds'
costing EL000 are reportedly'-
included in tiie refurbishment
of the Lord Chancellor's pri-'
vale apartments at the Palace-
of Westminster.

!•■ Mr Crawford asked: “Who
is talon g tiie moral lead? Who
is setting-the example? Is it tiie
Church? Is it the politicians? Is.
it tiie RoyaT Family? Is it tiie
policEand judiciary? With the
erosionof tiie nudeax family,
it all too often seems to come
down to schools and their
teachers in isolation. Society
and-parents should do all in
their.power - to support
schools."

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PARIS prtt-fcpoiter week"-
began yesterday with two
more famons French fash- .
ion houses fating afortign
invasion.'

Marc Jacobs, the New
York “grange” designer,
brought his laid-back atti¬
tude to the first Lbnis
Vuitton catwalk show,
while the Belgian designer
Martin Margida took
over at Hermes. ’

With so many of the
capital's citadels now
stormed, it is" increasingly
left to Yves Saint Laurent
to fly the tricolore.

Yesterday France’s had¬
ing couturier — in the
midst of celebrating 40
wars as a designer — had
taken a battering of his
own. His right arm was
strapped to his body, haw¬
ing been broken in a Call at

die shoulder and elbow.

The collection was his
best for several seasons. A
floor-length cape- in tea-
fdted wool with raw edges
looked modern, asdida
dress. plain atthe front inn
with re*wrs collars at the.
back, a pastiche of h*
famous le smoking-

His collection had a re¬
laxed fed - 9m Jod «

Kidd ending the show in.a
bdkkeved dress barking ;
back to die 6 V 3 |C 8 r«ld de-
ggnefs hippie luxe prat.

Bat if less looks more ^
Saint Lament. many
thought that it looked^ aim-
p}y less at Louis Vuitton.
Marc Jacobs’s debut - .coil- ',
lection for the.- l e a t her
goods company appeared
to draw takewarm re-
"spouse from the audience.

.. Jacobsjq^ecialis esml ux-
urious.. but., understated
dotbes- fliat are slightly
distressed. Trite to form,
his rubberised-- cotton
coats, which will sell for
hundreds of ' pounds,

' looked sfigbfly crumpled.

Cashmere sweaters with
torn-up hems were sleek
with a stron g eno ngh sjg-
natore for customers in
search_ of .status Mods..
But the sflk-stretch shirts
were so snnple that they
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Housing
protester
who shot
at JCB
is jailed

By A Correspondent

A MAN who shot at a
JCB driver to protect
hedgehogs threatened fay
a new housing develop'
ment was jailed for seven
months yesterday. Gerard
Cautts, 38. dim out the
window of the JCB and
also set fire to the first
bouse to be built, Perth
Sheriff Court heard.

When he was arrested.
Coutts told the police be
was acting on behalf of
the hedgehogs in the area.
He said they had no one
to represent them as their
homes were destroyed.
He said he was taking a
home for a home by
burning down the half-
built bouse at St Madoes.
Perthshire, last ApriL

Contts had shot at the
vehicle being driven by
John Turnbull two weeks
later because, the court
was told, the drone from
the construction site had
made him “tetchy".

Jane Benson, deputy
fiscal, said two men were
working at the Miller
Homes site when they
beard a loud bang. "Nei¬
ther had seen where the
shot came from, but they
thought it was from the
adjacent caravan rite."

When police went to
Coutts's caravan, be told
them:"I did tt because the
noise was doing my bead
in." The 22 air rifle and
ammunition was found
under his bed. When
questioned about the fire,
which caused £7.000 dam¬
age. he said: "They have
taken away at least two or
three homes of hedgehog
which 1 know about. I
thought I'm going to do
something back."

Coutts had earlier
admitted recklessly dis¬
charging an air rifle and
was found guilty three
weeks ago on the charge
of wilful fire-raising.

John Wheatley, the
Sheriff jailed Coutts for
three months on the fire-
raising charge and four
months for the shooting.

BSE inquiry calls
for extra time as
evidence mounts

t

By Michael Hornsby, agriculture correspondent

THE public inquiry into BSE
is to be extended by six months

at the request of the presiding
judge because of the growing
mountain of evidence that his
committee will have to scale.

Opening the inquiry in
London yesterday. Lord Jus¬
tice Phillips said that he had
derided the original Decem¬
ber 31 deadline set by the
Government could not be met

Downing Street immediate¬
ly granted the extension. Lord
Justice Phillips said: "1 am not
prepared to contemplate a
report that is superficial
because it has been too
rushed, and I do not believe
that those who are anxiously
looking forward to receiving
this report would wish us to
sacrifice thoroughness for
speed."

The inquiry has already
accumulated hundreds of doc¬
uments and scientific papers
relating to "mad cow" disease
and received 500 submissions
or evidence. Among those
called to give.written evidence
or to appear before the inquiry
will be farmers, consumers,
representatives of the beef and

food industries and the retail
trade and relatives of people
who have died of new-variant
Creutzfddr-Jakob disease.

To date 23 people have
developed the fatal degenera¬
tive brain disease, which is
incurable. The new-variant
strain differs from die usual
form in striking younger
people.

Lord Justice Phillips said
the main aim of the inquiry
was to assess "die adequacy of
response" of ministers, gov¬
ernment officials and scien¬
tists to the emerging evidence
about BSE "in die light of
contemporary knowledge".

The opening was attended
by David and Dorothy Chur¬
chill. from Devizes, Wiltshire,
whose son, Stephen, died aged
19 on May 21. 1995, the first
known victim of new-variant
CJD. Mr Churchill, who led
the campaign for a public
inquiry, said: "We are pleased
by the six-month extension
because we feared the inquiry
might not have enough time to
do a proper job.”

The first witness to give
evidence will be Roger

Dorothy and David Churchill, whose son Stephen
died of new-variant CJD. arriving for die inquiry

Tomkins, the father of Clare
Tomkins, who contracted
new-variant CJD last year
despite having been a vegetar¬
ian for ten years. He and two
vets. Colin Whitaker and
David- Bee. who examined
what are now recognised to
have been the fust cases of
BSE will appear today.

One of ffte main tasks of the
inquiry will be to examine
why the ban on human con¬
sumption of potentially infect¬
ed parts of cattle carcasses was
not introduced until four years
after . the first diagnosis of
spongiform encephalopathy
in a cow in late 1985.

The inquiry yesterday
heard an eloquent appeal for
justice from David Body, a
solicitor representing the fam¬
ilies of new-variant CJD vic¬
tims, who read out a statement
on behalf of the Human BSE .
Foundation, a body formed by
the families last year. Hie
families said they were not
seeking scapegoats but want¬
ed to know tite individuals
responsible for giving advice
and making derisions during
the period covered by the
inquiry, which ends on March
20. 1996, the date when the
probable link between BSE
and new-variant CJD was first
publicly admitted.

Mr Body said a "central
concern" was to establish
whether officials had ever
made a judgment that "the
risk of human contamination
(from BSE) could be regarded
as remote until it happened"
and that "some lives might be
a price worth paying" to avoid
economic damage to the fann¬
ing industry.

Opening move Lord Justice Phillips said the inquiry needed an extra six months

Watchdog hits stop button on offensive faxes

By Lin Jenkins

A TELEPHONE watchdog has
banned a company from sending
unsolicited smutty faxes to homes,
schools and businesses after receiv¬
ing hundreds of complaints.

Up to two million faxes, some with
die titles "Ail about sex" and “Poo
talk”, were sent during the night to
promote Fax Data Services. Com¬

plainants induded a hospice, a
charity and several schools. One said
that the fax “was worse than receiv¬
ing an obscene phone call".

Nearly 350 complaints were made
to the Independent Committee for the
Supervision of Standards of Tele¬
phone Information Services, which
yesterday said that it had banned the
company from operating any premi¬
um-rate service for one year. The 11

premium-rate services run by the
company, which cost customers £1 a
. minute, have been cut off.

The directors will also be required
to give assurances that they will not
operate any premium-rate service
that breaches the committee’s code of
pra cti c e .

The company, of Wimpole Street,■;
London, fold already been fined
£1,000 for seeing foe material, and

had been advised by the committee
haw to avoid breaching its code 6f
practice. Most of the faxes were
advertisements for "FUnny Faxes"
which the company said could be
sent to amuse friends and colleagues.

The committee said the exact
number of offensive faxes sent was
hot clear. The service, provider said
that two mfllion had. been distribut¬
ed, but also claimed that total

revenue was just £250, which sug¬
gested a surprising low take-up
. rare lor the service. '

The company was found to have
Jailed to ensure that its faxes did not
reach an inappropiate audience and
to have sent material likely to "cause
grave or widespread offence". Sarah
: Harrison, director of the committee,

. said: “We regard the breachesas very
.saious.- •

soundest

Abe&iafewhisky, brandy
or liqueur is atuottttt 1 -
tain la prevent the desired
effect of a sound night’s
sleep, researchers say. The
National Steep Founda¬
tion. which Interviewed
L000 travellers in' hotels
around the world, stud
fW although alcohol
caused drowsiness, it dis¬
rupted the deeper Icvrisof
the deep «yde. ....

A violent stockbroker was
jailed for a year and told
to pay CL00O compensa¬
tion at Southwark Crown
Court. Jean-Paul Gantar,
45, a judo Wackbdt
admitted grievous bodily
harm against Knn Kelly,
35, Iris ex-fiamcfci • ~

Town’s fax rise

Ilfracombe Town Council
has raised its council tax.
: precept by £34 per person.
to cover a £ 100.000 deficit
after it was allegedly mis¬
led about fls finances by
itsricik. Barry Bradshaw.
Police and the district
auditor are investigating.

Wave of interest

iheintcrest created by tire
film Titanic has led to a
surge of inquiries about
the 1406-member British
Titanic Society. Steve
Ri^ry, the secretary, said
his post ba g was fifled with
ap p li c a tions to join or
lequ cst s- for information. ;

Free transfer

Itoofcwood, ■•.a; private
school m Andover. Hamp¬
shire. has offered to pro¬
vide irep education for- '
Lolla LacaS* Kv who kft
the grant-maintained
Casdedpwh School at
LudgershadL " Wiltshire,'
because of bnflyuig. f."

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The architect of the new
British Library is Sir Col¬
in St John Wilson; we
regret r epo rtin g his name
inconecdy on March 6..

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he drove with bottle in hand, mieS Paul Wilkinson

§

AN ALCOHOLIC who killed
three members of a family as-
he drove with a bottle of vodka
in his hand was jailed for
seven years yesterday.

Andrew Armstrong was
more than three times over the
. drink-drive limit when he ran
•' \ into the three men from be¬
hind as they eye led on a
country road five days before
Christmas last year. Alan
Harrison and his brother Bry¬
an died with their brother-in-
law, Don Smith. Raymond
Walls, Mr Smith’s son-in-law,
suffered a broken leg and hip.

Armstrong. 36. from Seaton
Sluice, Northumberland, ad¬
mitted three charges of caus:
ing death by dangerous
driving at Newcastle Crown
Court. He was banned from
driving for 15 years.

Outside court Peter Harri¬
son, a brother of two of the
vicrinis. said: “The actual time
he has to serve in prison will
ij not change what happened.
We knew ten years was die
maximum he could get
because he never left the scene
and he’s shown genuine signs
of r,emorse.

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formed no opinion of the man.
because we do nor know him
and we have tried to keep it
that way. There isnj any
anger at the moment, but'
there may be in time.

“It is not just losing one.

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Armstrong: hid drinking
from wife anddanghfer

person, or three .septir.iL'
pHKde. it is the . loss o*-three'
sectronsjuf a bia'farriif; -it Is?.#,
left a hole in every udcs Srvt<
andin eveO'ihing.we do.'" .

.Pad Sloan/ for Tde-prb*icyu-
tion. said that Bryan, l-Jan;!-
son.'.^S, and Si is brother Alan.
53..had gone oin to ride ’-' r lh
Mr Smith. *0. ;uni Mr Wall :. :
25. near their, home-in Tflyth.
Nortliumberiai’.d; They »M.*re
all wearing rcOccrivc riothine
and had hright lights, .

Armstrong, a ~ Sirire:'- lift
engineer, had already, drunk
almost half a Lvtlle ol vodk'ii :r
"his allotment.-ihei*. when Tie
began'to drive tot./Rud
Momleo. VlLwnents before be
struck she riik'.re. he almost
ran'uver a'jtiggcr. .MrSiotrse-

said: *Thejogger rinqs^d sliuj.
rlie accused hail a f .a'f-tn‘r. 7 e o'-
spirits’ in liis hand.'which, he;,
was holding close, irv ‘his
mnuth.-.

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in single file. rhey.v. rre JlSir-.
ly xuabJc fiir Trs? i

ploughed ’into rite back if
them without even .diJWHis-.
down or braking.

‘‘The thivp dcceav.-d'su f -’,
lered catastrophic injure* ifcid
died insumth' .Mr WSi !Ktfi-fo.
to stand up .and he

had broken his tea..Police say:
die damage to the. cat was
consistent with, it tr.iveiling :c
bOmph on impact “ . *

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millilitres •' nf Armstrong s
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tharhe drank four uni I a Half
bonles of vodka a-week He
Said lie-bad. not- seen, the
cyclists unit? they were orrhis
hunneL “I should nhj haw,
driven a'ear I just wish l could ■
turn: the dock back.” • >" "

■ Tim Hewin. mitigating for
’.ArnisTroog, said: “He is genu¬
inely' remorseful, dtvistpteJ
and terrified by what.Jie has
.inflicted on the families of the
xictirtis. He descended imor rhe:
-world of afenh' Slsirt in KW4

... -duyuch die onset o‘ deprev
sfoiY. Sliordy alitr ihui. he lost
• i<i; parents ' ere quickly and
: litsj jrP confidence.*

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iE | Policeman
four times
m over limit
Ifj walks free

A T RAJ TIC policeman who
turned io drink after his wife
left him for a neighbour es¬
caped jail yesterday for driv¬
ing while nearly four times
over the limit.

Desmond Smullen. 39. had
to resign from Thames Valley
Police last Friday after admit¬
ting drink-driving at an earli¬
er hearing. Magistrates at
Bicester. Oxfordshire, yester¬
day imposed a 150-hour com¬
munity service order.

I The off-duty officer had
132 micrograms of alcohol in
his breath — the legal limit is
55mcg — after he had crashed
his Ford Fiesta into another
car early on January 25.

Paul Redpath. in mitigation,
‘•■aid: “Mr Smullen is angry
j with himself and ashamed of
i what he has done. His wife of
II years left him for his next-
door neighbour and he's been
involved in a bitter divorce.
He has lost everything impor¬
tant in his life."

Magistrates told Smullen
that he avoided u custodial
sentence only because of his
excellent pr«emenrc reports.
He was banned from driving
for three years.

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BRITISH holidaymatsers
are warned today that their
safety may be at risk on ferry
trips in the Mediterranean.
Lower levels of safety^ on
many popular ferry .routes
around Italy and Greece
could put passengers'in dan¬
ger, according to die-maga¬
zine Holiday Which?

The consumer watchdog
says that ferry safety changes,
scheduled to be brought in by
2002, mast be introduced
jmmediatefyto ensure that afl
European ferries meet one
standard and passengers are
better protected.

Many ferries travelling
from British ports do not
have to comply with the latest
Stockholm Agreement stan¬
dards until 2002, but the
magazine says tftatis too late.
However, it concedes that
British ferries are generally
of a higher safety standard
than those on Mediterranean
routes and suffer only, minor
failings. Half the 38 ferries

laiuugs. • ■

examined at UK and Baltic - ferry user*.

ports wrra-bf good srsoriari!;
ihe remainder satisfactory.

The magazine xff* Inal-
despite pressure to improve
safety since the Herald nf
Free Enterprise capsized' off
-Zeebnigge/in 1987, miffioiu
of Britons will travel on
ferries this; summer dial do
not meet adequate standards.

The ferries and. routes list¬
ed as unsatisfactory were !fie
Sardinia Kegina between Li¬
vorno in Italy and Gnlfu'
Arrand iir Sardinia, and in
Greece, the Ltsxns from
Piraeus to Chania in Crete,
the Express Apollon from
Piraeus to" Paros. ,:.nd the
Milos. Express from Piraeus
tn'Sifuos. '

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Relatives who fall
ill after tragedies
may get damages

By Frances Gibb, legal correspondent

PEOPLE who suffer mental
illness after witnessing or
hearing of a relative's death —
even on television or radio —
should be able to claim dam¬
ages. the Government’s law
reform body says rod ay.

The recommendation by the
Law Commission would mean
that relatives of the football
fans killed in the 1989
Hillsborough disaster, who
foiled to win damages because
they did not physically witness
what happened, could be
awarded compensation.

Under the proposed reform,
it would still be necessary for
claimants to have dose ties
with the persons injured,
killed or put in danger. But
they would no longer have to
be dose in time and space to
the accident — the so-called
proximity test applied by the
courts; nor would they have to
witness events through their
own senses.

Claimants would have to
have suffered psychiatric Al¬
ness in line with the current
criteria applied by doctors and
the courts. Andrew Burrows,
the Law Commissioner in

charge of the project, said: "It
is not enough merely to have
suffered grid, upset or anxiety
—in other words, mere mental
distress. We are talking about
something much more signifi¬
cant with a greater intensity of
symptoms."

The relatives of the
Hillsborough victims sued
South Yorkshire Police and
the case went all the way to the
House of Lords. Relatives at
the stadium who suffered psy¬
chiatric illnesses were able to
daim damages, as were the
police officers who carried out
tiie rescue work, but relatives
who saw the tragedy on tele¬
vision and later identified the
bodies were not able to claim.
The courts ruled they were not
dose to the disaster and did
nor perceive it with their
unaided senses.

The Law Lords also laid
down new guidelines, stating
that there must be a dose tie of
love and affection, a closeness
to the accident in time and
space and "direct perception"
of the accident Professor Bur¬
rows said, however, that the
law needed reform: it pro¬

duced results that were "wide¬
ly regarded as arbitrary and '
unjust". He said there were,
conflicting views on the re¬
form and the Law Commis¬
sion had opted for a mid-way
course.

The proposals, accompa¬
nied by a draft Bill, would not
run the risk of creating uncon¬
trolled liability, he said He
thought it unlikely that broad¬
casters would find themselves
at the receiving end of dam¬
ages claims just because they
had persisted with broadcast¬
ing details of a disaster.

"We did not specifically look
at this." Professor Burrows
said, “but it seems very unlike¬
ly. because the defendant in
these cases is the person or
body who actually caused the
death, injury or impediment
of another and a broadcaster
would not be causing it."

Any claimant would have to
show that a broadcaster owed
a duly of care to an injured
person, and such a claim
would be likely to foil. Profes¬
sor Burrows said.

Law. page 43

Met cuts pensions of
convicted policemen

By Stewart Tendler, crime correspondent

THE Metropolitan Police is
acting to curtail the pensions
of convicted officers as part of
its moves against police crime.

The force has asked Home
Office ministers to revoke a
large part of the pensions due
to two officers jailed for cor¬
ruption. A further four officers
could be affected by the
measure, which has already
been used to cut by three
quarters the index-linked pen¬
sion due to a former Scotland
Yard accountant who stole
£5 million from a police fond.

Jack Straw, the Home Sec¬
retary, is currently looked at
the case of Ronald Palumbo,
32. who was based at Stoke

Newington, North London,
and is serving ten years for his
part in a £2 million cocaine
smuggling ring, and the file
on Jonn Donald, 37, a former
detective constable, is still with
officials. Donald was jailed for
11 years for offering to sell to
Kenneth Noye. who is wanted
in connection with a road-rage
killing, details of an investi¬
gation into his activities.

Palumbo, who had served
ten years in the force, is due a
pension of more than £3,600 a
year. Donald, who had been a
police officer for more than 17
years, is due £6,600.

A senior Scotland Yard of¬
ficer said a small percentage of

the pension might be left for a
former officer's family. “It is
not something we would do
lightly, but in criminal cases
' we will go for it The message
will be that these officers are
not going to escape with their
pensions,” he said.

In the case of Anthony
Williams, the corrupt account¬
ant, the pension he built up
over 36 years will be cut from
£18.000 a year to about £6.000
when he leaves jail.

The 27.000-strong force and
14,000 civilian staff are being
warned that the same policy
will be applied to anyone
convicted for any crime apart
from a motoring offence.

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Therapy
backfires
for child
molesters

By Ian Murray

MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT

THERAPY has worsened the
attitudes of many child mo¬
lesters, .who. became more
convinced that their victims
had seduced them.

Home Office researchers
studied the cases of '39. men
who' were encouraged to face
up to their crimes and accept
responsibility. Eight unproved
tfaeiT attitude. 20 r emained
convinced that they .were hot
to blame, and il. blamed their
victims even mine thaabefore:

Writing in Legal and Crimi¬
nological Psychology. Dawn
Fisher, who led the research,
says the therapy failed
hecause the men were urged in
confront then own response
bility too soon: Tt is impossible
at this stage to say whether it
made than a bigger-risk to
children. But ir is .a worry, as
there is such ahigh rate of
recidivism among certain
child molesters. ! , : , •
"Making ^offenders accept
their blame is very important
But in" die treatment in the
community, they .were, being
confronted too early. The effect
was to make many j of them
very defensive. To avoid feel¬
ing guilty, they blame every¬
thing else they can think of.

. .“This method of too-eariy
confrontation has been going
on for a long time. 1 don’t'
know how many child molest¬
ers would have been affected
like this,, but it . must be
hundreds." -

The-Home Office has now.
urged therapists to take longer
before Teaching the stage
where offenders have to accept
their own guilt.

other; wert to tire Real Postcr
Galleiy in London, after spir¬
ited^bidding.'.

At the same sale, a se¬
quence of American cinema
door posters featuring Sean
Conneiy in 'Goldfinger.
TfumderbaU and You' Only
Live Twice fetched £33300.

By David Charter
education correspondent ''

the Seventh Day Adventist ■
Church, which iqeos the
theory of evolution, has won'..
cfo n* funding for a secondary
school after a long campaign.

• The decision erf David Blun-
ken, the Education Secretary,
to award grant-maintained
status to John Loughborough
School in Tottenham, North •
London is expected to faring if T.
at least £700.000 of public '#
money a year. Parents at the...

. sdiooL where GCSE results -
are better than at many of
Haringey" council's - schools,
currently pay Fees of more
than £2,000 a year, after Sept- ~
ember no fees will be charged.

Bernie Grant, the local MP
who had campaigned fra- the
school called the decision "a
triumph for the black com¬
munity". Mr Grant said;Tbe

establishment of the school .
sprang from thetieep dtssatis-'
faction which, many black
Christian teachers and par¬
ents feft with .'mainstream
education. WhiteCatholic and
Church of England .-schools ' ^
have" beat publicly Fancied, 7 '- *
tiwse parents havehad to pay, 1
which wasdiscrimmatoiy." .

To ' win stafer funding,

. schools mart demonstrate that
they teach the foil tervsubject
natywwL curriculum. Howev¬
er, they are free to modify the

•^lintoxr Valley, —

teacher, was "overjoyed** and
boped tbat toe school which
now has 139 pupOs. would
soon be taking 250. Working-
dass parents had. found it. .
hard, to meet the fees, he
added. ’

Robert Ashby, of the British..."
Humanist Association, op¬
posed the mowe because “dnf- ..
dren should ort be brought up
to beheve in ordy one view,
such as Creatfonisn.*.-

But the church's education A
dircctor,'Keitb Davidson, said
that tbe rctioiiti cirmcmhi^ . ' .
indudingrcfence, was taught,

. with a- “ fai th' dimensio n" in
j- each subject *As ;far as the
Danviman theoryofevolution
I, is concerned, we teach it but
;' we ddat" accept ft* he said,
•^can «m academic point of
view, .we' present the Darwin¬
ian theory, butwe promote the
-Creationistperspective.”

Tony Broaqnan, pfthe Har¬
ingey brawir orthe National
Uraori; of Teadiers, ' was
astonished timt the Govern¬
ment had granted grant-main¬
tained status to any school,

“let alone a school which is
detumtinatkmal".

• David Hart, of the National -
Association of Head Teachers,
raid: "I don't see any reafon
why a school serving a minor¬
ity religion should qfit be
given grant-maintained^status

u the Secretary of State be- JJfc.
lieves it to be justified." •

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World broadcasters have branded
on the^BBpSrSu^s^rexpprt
for not showiiig children enough
reality, reports CarolMidgley<

THE Teletubbies were under .-
attack frran - international .
broadcasters yesterday for j
being superficial, non-educa- ”
tional, too commercial and
altogether too cheerfuL -

A world summit on chil¬
dren’s television, held': at
Westminster, was told that
stories about Tinky Winky,
Laa-Laa, Dipsy and Po laugh¬
ing in the sunshine felled to
prepare youngsters for the
evils of the real world.

As the programme, which
has become one of the BBC
successful exports,' was at¬
tacked by broadcasters from,
Europe, Australia, South Af¬
rica and America, its creator,
Anne Wood, said; “I know
people would like to make a
wax image of me and sti ck

pins in it, but! would just Tike

to make a small place in the
world for a child’s right to.
enjoy themselves. 1 . L '

“It would be a great pity if- -
we didn’t allow them to be
joyful When you’re very
young, you Eve in an adult „
world you understand only
partially. We try to present a

world from, their pwspechye
because,' if tfceyri srmHng
: they’re, confident and if
they^re bimfident they^re reas-'
sured and if they're reassured
they will fed strongs’ in
thBawdves." :.

• . However, Ada'Hang, head

nel NRK, tdkf the Second
World Surrimif. on Television
for ChUdim: “CMdren are
invited into ah afierHooking
world with alien-looking,
'babylike characters talking
in- baby language. What is
there for them to grow to¬
wards if the characters are a
copy of themselves living iii'a
world they will never encoun¬
ter in their fife?"

- The programme was made
wife t» British cutare’Wr.
such as language or traffic
' signs, so that itfcmild be'stdd.-
easily abroad: ^7bfetubfnes is
. the most maiijet-orientated
diildren’S prolamine'I ijave-

ever seen. 5o much is focused
anthe wrapping paper and ?o
little on-the concept There is
: no story, ifo.deyeiopmeat, no

elation, sakt '‘Teletubbies is
not about learning and chal¬
lenges. ft. is regressive for
children who have gone be¬
yond die babbling stage. The
defence is always that the
children like it, as though this
exonerates them from any
criticism. *

JiBMcCunJy.framWarner
Brothers USA. «ud she be¬
lieved ^programme did not

adequately .'prepare children
forth*ev0 m the real world,
as did? stories such as the
-'Grimms' fairy tales. “The
idea of abator lauehing in the

Anire Wood, the creator;
said: “Allawtfceni joy’

ectndusion — only visuality
and a set of anadtrcnustic
rituals. I find the idea of- the
TV screens in the characters
very baril to swallow. The
films [shown on the charac¬
ters’ screens] are very poorly
made."* .. 1 V '

, AU her oxinterparts in

Denmark bad refused to buy

% programmed whudi is
screened in the America, Por¬
tugal. South Africa-New Zea¬
land, the Netherlands,
Singapore, Denmark, Israel
arid Japan, where last year it

won an educational prize.
Ibis week it was also bought
by Chinaand Spain.

- Patricia Edgar, of the Aiis-
■ tralian Children's TV Fpun-

sun projects a false image of
the world," she said.

---- . ,

the sensitive - subjects wrnen
have been covered in iirtema-
tional children's pro¬
grammes, including incest,
which was addressed by the
Philippines company PCTV.
■Rene O Villanueva, creative
director of the company, said:
“In the Philippines, children
are exposed to mudi more
Amgw titan television."

Teletubbies is produced by
fraprtnll Productions for die
BBC Aosonfing to BBC re¬
search, its repetitive nature
h ptps very young children to
learn, pres e nti ng a world
from the experiences of other
.dtiUren.- - *

Roy Thompson, of BBC
Children's Commissioning,
said that focus groups of
parents, carers, researchers

The targets of tub-thumping: from left, Tinky Winky, Po. Laa-Laa and Dipsy

and professionals had found
“extremely positive* results.

“When the parents got to¬
gether to talk about the pro¬
gramme, they noticed how
effective it had been, and h

had not necessarily been until
they spoke to other parents
that they noticed a differ¬
ence," he said.

Mr Thompson added that
Teletubbies programmes

would continue to be made
into the future. “The
Teletubbies will be there for
many years to come.”

Tdevisioa page 51

Heard the one about the Irish pub they flew to Siberia?

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IRELAND CojStESPtM^UBNT

i A CERTAIN brand of Ugerfesaitl to

refresh the pm-b other* cannot reach.

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;■ SefertrfoH^MjiiBii of Ac dm
luHtter i^4iwa$lcle pnk

have been ftwfn from iMdin to
dcqretf Siberi*» itaUbehteato can
celebrate St Pahidrt Day next weds
'■foflreapimiipaitommmre.'

Tire Sfitotaodt ^ ~ “

modefled onlhe Vktorian pobs that

abound in tire Irish capitaL R was
buffi by tire Guhmessupprwed Irish
Pub Compa q/ in DoUm, then dia¬
monded and put on a Russian
freighter. The walls, floors and roof
are currentiy being reassembled in
Novosibirsk, tire Siberian capital
. with a - population of two Milli on
potential stmt drinkers.

A spokeswoman for . Guinness
made ft dear (hat tire Russians did
not have to reassemble the pub
themselves, m tire manner of a
furniture store ftatp aefc . “People
from tire pub company go over and

make it up on site, so you don't have
the frustration of finding screws
missing at the end," sire said.

Since 1992, Guinness has built
about L600 Irish pubs in 45 countries,
including China, although most are
In Britain and tire Continent Five
styles are offered to interested cus¬
tomers: Dublin Victorian, Irish pub
and diop. Irish country cottage.
Gaelic pafo or Irish brewery. The beer
is supplied by Gumness, which will
akn provide music, recipes and
advice cm Interior deagn.

Novosibirsk, on the River Ob, was

founded in 1883 as a stop on tire
Trans-Siberian railway. The Sham¬
rock has been bought fy. and wfflbe

run by, a Russian company, Septnna
Trading. It is situated a me from a
church that marks tire geographic
centre of Russia.

The spokeswoman for Gu mn ess-

said: “It really is unique to have a real

lririi pub in somewhere as remote as
Siberia. The locals wont know what
hit them. But one tiring is for sure

they will have tire time of their lives i ?

this pub on St Patrick’s Day next
Tuesday."

HOME NEWS 9

=1DNA can
point to
race and
sex of
criminals

SAMPLES taken from a crime

scene could soon be used to
identify the race and sat of the
criminal. West Midlands
police said yesterday.

The national DNA data¬
base, though never designed
for tiiis purpose, asuld give
police a picture of the suspect
right at the beginnin g of a n
investigation, said Detective
Inspector Richard Leary, who
has been working with the
Fbrensic Science Service to
develop the system.

They have found that the
DNA profiles stored on the
database correlate with the
racial origins of the criminals
who have provided them. It
has been found that a particu¬
lar pattern of DNA profile can
be common to a racial group.
The sex of an individual can
also be identified, and in some
raore jt is possible to identify
hair ccdour. too.

“Sanples taken from the
scene of crime can be fed into
the database and, by using
computer software, we can
predict part erf the offender's
genetic make-up" Mr Leary
said.

m L/ipay A dna profile of a suspect

. . can be matched against pro¬
to be made ^ from convicted

rture. *ne criminals and stored in the
[be mere for database. The profiles have no
ome.” link wih any particular gene.

T~. “ However, the profiles differ

■Sion, page 51 significantly by race and gen-

_ der. "We can identify the sex of

a suspect with 99 per cent
• accuracy," said Mr Leary.

O / “With ethnicity, the success
I I fjk 1 rate depends on the racial
group concerned." To test the
reliability, he has sent samples
a stop on tire from 200 people to a colleague
w. The Shaun- at the Fbrensic Science Service
by. and wiB be in Birmingham, asking him to
ipany. Septum try to identify the race and sex
a n3c from a of each one.
he geographic □ Salmon raised by one of
Scotland’s largest producers,
for Guinness Landcatdu wul have their

ie to have a real pedigrees recorded in a DNA
re as remote as database. The information is
ant know what being used to improve the
Eng fe far sure production of salmon by se-
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ick'S Day next grow fastest, or are least
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10 POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

Parties urged to
discipline MPs

behaving badly

Polly Newton on a Commons committee’s complaints
of bad manners and excessive noise during debates

THE poor behaviour of MPs
in the chamber was highlight'
ed yesterday by a Commons
committee that is urging the
party whips to bring the
offenders into line.

In a report the Modernisa¬
tion Committee says that there
is too much rudeness and
"unnecessary noise” on both
sides. It insists that certain
rules of conduct must be
obeyed to protect the good
name of the House, and says
that MPS who flout those rules
should be "seriously" admon¬
ished by the Speaker.

However, h says that the
blame rests more often with
large numbers of MPs who
talk loudly during other peo¬
ple's contributions to a debate
or disrupt proceedings by
leaving the chamber at the
start of business that does not
interest them.

“In these cases it cannot be
left to the Speaker alone to
uphold acceptable standards
of behaviour, the responsi¬
bility must be assumed by the
parliamentary parries, acting
through their chairmen and
through the whips. We call
upon them to take concerted
action without delay to im¬
prove standards in all parts of
the House."

The committee, which is
chaired by Ann Taylor, the
Leader of the House, says that
members entering or leaving
the chamber should nod or
bow at the Speaker. It points
out that Erskine May. the
parliamentary “bible", also
stipulates that they must not
pass between the Speaker and
a member who is addressing
the House. The report says:
"Regrettably these rules are
far too often ignored.”

In response to recent calls
from some new MPs for
clapping to be permitted in the
chamber, the committee says
that there is a danger that
such a move would be open to
abuse. “[It] could lead in
certain circumstances to or¬
chestration of what would
amount to standing ovations
with the success or failure
of a speech being judged not
by its content but by the
relative length of the ovation
at the end ...

“At the same time, we
condemn the growing misuse
of the traditional cry of ‘hear,
hear' and in particular the
recent practice of unnecessary
noise of this kind from both
sides which has routinely ac¬
companied the entrance of the
Prime Minister and Leader of

the Opposition before Prime
Minister's Questions.

“Such noise serves no useful
purpose and is grossly unfair
to the Member who is current¬
ly trying to ask a question and
the Minister who is replying."

Committee members say
that any MP who is suspended
from the House far miscon¬
duct should lose his or her
parliamentary salary for the
period of exclusion. They hope
that such a punishment would
deter Members from engi¬
neering their suspensions to
gain publicity for a particular
cause.

The committee recommends
abolition of the rule which
requires MPs to be “seated
ana covered"—that is, to wear
a hat—if they wish to make a
point of order during a vote in
the chamber. In practice, the
report says, the rule has meant
that an opera hat is passed
from one end of the chamber
to the member concerned.
"This inevitably takes some
time, during which the mem¬
ber frequently seeks to use
some other form of covering
such as an order paper. This
particular practice has almost
certainly brought the House
into greater ridicule than al¬
most any other, particularly

Rik Mayall as the unruly Alan B’Stard; real MPs are being told to improve their act

since the advent of television."

As reported in 7 Tie Times in
November, the committee is
also in favour of rescinding
the traditional precedence in
Commons debates enjoyed by
Privy Counsellors. All former
Cabinet ministers are Privy
Counsellors so the change

would mean that those now
sitting on the bade benches,
such as Michael HeseltLne
and Kenneth Clarke, would
have to wait their turn along¬
side relative newcomers un¬
less tiie Speaker believed that
they had particular expertise
in the subject under discus¬

sion. There is also a sugges¬
tion in the report that contri¬
butions to debates should
more often be time-limited,
although never to Less than
eight minutes per MP.

The committee's, report will
be implemented only if it is
accepted fay the House.

THE TIMES TUESDAY MARCH 101998 ~

Liddell
in line to
replace
Dewar

By Gillian Harris

HELEN LIDDELL, the Eok
nomic Secretary to the Trea-
smy, has derided against
standing for the- Scottish
. parliament ^

Her derision, announced
wsterday, means that she is
how first in line to become .

Scotland's first woman Secre- -
tary of Slate when Donald

Dewar stands down in May.

Mrs LidddL 46. is thought -
to have been persuaded to .
stay at Westminster by Tony

Blair, who is keen to have her
in his Cabinet during the first -.
sitting of the Scottish
parliamentMr Dewar an¬
nounced at the weekend that
he would leave his job in May
to concentrate on the Scottish
election campaign. Mr Blair
is expected to hold a Cabinet
resh uffle In the same month. .

Although Mrs LiddeO. who
succeeded the late John,
Smith as MP for Monklands
East in 1994, has remained
quiet about her ambition to
be Scottish Secretary, those

dose to her say it is a job that
. she would relish. In 1990 die
wrote a book about it — a 331-
page political blockbuster.
Elite, in which the central
character, Ann Darke, rises
through the Labour ranks.

reviews its
working
methods

By Andrew Pierce

■ POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

THE Commons committee
that investigated the cash-for-
questions affair has launched
a public review of the way it
handles .serious complaints
against MPs. ,

Tbe action was prompted by
the Standards and Privileges
Committee’s failure to agree a
unanimous report on whether
the former Tory minister Neil
Hamilton took cash-died en¬
velopes from Moharaed Al
Fayed, the owner of Hauods.

One option being consid¬
ered by the committee is. to
employ lawyers, to act as
professional assessors along¬
side Sir Gordon Downey,, tine
Parliamentary Commissioner.

. Another is to give' MPS on the
committee the chance to cross-
examine witnesses such as Mr
Al Fayed who make serious
allegations against M Ps.

. Under the present rules the
witness interviews are con¬
ducted. by Sir Gordon Dow¬
ney. the Parliamentary -Com¬
missioner. . The - committee
reaches its verdict chi the basis
of his report

Robert Sheldon, the ^com¬
mittee chairman, said: “I do
not .favour an adversarial
system — it would lead to us
becoming a court But I want
tq consult a. wide a range of
opinion as possible.".

Mr Sheldon has opened the
review, the first since the self-
regulatory system was estab¬
lished. to wider public
comment - “Anyone can con¬
tribute their view," he said.

IN PARLIAMENT

sm

Let Scottish devolution mean diversity, not uniformity

SCOTLAND never accepted
Thatcherism, and if is distinctly
ambivalent about Blairism. to
judge by the weekend's Scottish
Labour conference in Perth. Both
Thatcherism and Blairism are
seen as distinctly English phenom¬
ena. alien to the more collectivist
political tradition north of the
border. Despite winning a key vote
on tuition fees , the leadership was
beaten on motions over cuts to
lone-parent benefits (in a bitter
motion saying the action was
“economically inept, morally re¬
pugnant, and spiritually bereft”).
Trident and the like.

These defeats can be dismissed
as parr of the usual conference
ritual — meaningless gesture poli¬
tics which do not really reflect the
views of ordinary Labour mem¬
bers. And as Donald Dewar
pointed out. a clear majority of
constituency parties backed the
leadership on lone-parent benefits.
The defeat was because of union
votes. The Blairites remain firmly
in control of the party in Scotland,
and have succeeded in altering the
way that derisions are taken.
Policy forums will take over the
role traditionally performed by the
annual conference, in line with

RIDDELL

ON POLITICS

changes already adopted by the
national Labour Party.

The leadership is also keeping a
tight grip on the selection of
candidates for next year’s elections
to the Scottish parliament The
derisions of Mr Dewar and Henry
McLeish, his deputy, to leave
Westminster for Edinburgh reflect
the leadership’s desire for a
smooth transition and no early
disputes between the new parlia¬

ment and the Government in
London. Mr Dewar and his col¬
leagues seem sensitive about their
position. They spent much of the
weekend attacking their allies of
convenience in last September's
referendum campaign, the Scot¬
tish Nationalists, though Robin
Cook sounded a more co-operative
and pluralist tone.

The rumblings over the week¬
end emphasise the deep differ¬
ences in political culture between
Scotland and England. Tony Blah-
sees devolution in limited terms, a
grant by London of very tightly
defined powers of discretion.

1 Blairism with a tartan fringe. His
advocacy of the ’Third way" and
his rhetoric about changing the
role of government are seen as
English solutions, to an English
problem. Labour in Scotland nev¬
er suffered the defeats that it did in
England, so it does not need to
reinvented as “new”. The late John
Smith never really understood, or
forgave, England for not voting
like Scotland. Gordon Brown is
one of the few politicians who can.
advocate the “new” Labour mess¬
age in tiie language of the Scottish
Labour tradition in which he grew
up and thrived during the 1970s.

. The Government’s devolution
plans contain an inner ambiguity..
In the eyes of same of the Blair
inner tirrie, a different approach
canriot be adopted ixi Edinburgh,
risktog stories about a dash, with
London. But if aU the Goveri^
mentYtalk of decentralising paw-,
er away from London is to mean,
anything, it must imply diversity-
ratiier than a uniform approach--
throughout the country. Such di¬
versity is a characteristic, indeed a
virtue, of toe type of federal system
which Britam fabeaiming-
There is no reason why Scotland
should not adjopt different policies^:

and altitudes to the role of govern¬
ment, from the rest of Britain if its
new legislature wants to do so..
Members of the Edinburgh parlia¬
ment would have to.take account
of the Implications of such social
and economic policies, and conse-

S ient higher levels of taxation, for
e willingness of businesses to
invest and expand in Scotland. But
that is their affair. They should
have to face up to toe costs, as well
as toe benefits, of devolution. If.
Scotland is not as "new" Labour as
•toe rest of Britain, so be it.

ivr * Pet®.' Riddell

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sharpen their fingernails

k GERMANY’S political-lead-.
U 1 ' ing laches are preparing for.-
*'• The first time in the country's'
postwar history to enter tbe ’
election fray and flash their. ,
newly sharpened,. immaCB- ■■
v ' lately manicured nails on be*
half of their husbands, '■
'■-v ' Helmut Kohl and - Gerhard
SchrBder.

1 In the conservative corner
there is Hannelore Kohl. 65

, man is a

wpman ddermined "to daw her
' ^y hj vlctory inlhe election,
writes feoger Boyes from Bonn

jrtn .polls, pornt to a isastrous'
result in. ' September's; etec-
umc to [uuiucioie xvonu to ' tiQHS- A Csfect c olleague ,
last Saturday. Once dismissed addressing foreig n ggresp ott-
as die Barbie of the Rhineland ' dents, last week. adnuTOd:. m ■-
— - because of her' ghy- inrie " anAmericai)ised,eletficff Cfluv-

h air spray, high-collared
blouses and withdrawn man¬
ner — she has started to give
surprisingly combative inter¬
views, revealing herself to be
every bit as tough; as -
Helmut. She is nor
counting an his defeat:

"Once you've got Kohl,
you've got him for a
long time.” she says, v
The last opportunity
for the Christian Demo- -.
crats to replace Herr - Kohl
before general elections would
be in May — after the Euro¬
pean summit in which the
membership of European
monetary union is
be a creed, and

paign. Kohl wouH pot be on*
top candidate." ;

It/ , is precisely-Herr
SchrCdetfs talent to American-
; lse the German efectwns- He-

c Doris Schroide: has put
her husband on a- diet and is

began early* appearing on
television talk shows with ms
then wife -Ifilhi.; Thai mar¬
riage Hlapait after he tod an
^ affair wife Dais KSpf.a
to journalist of '33. She is new

__the ' Doris Schroder, leading.lag

Christian Democratic Union’s - of lcraier Saxony and fourth
party conference in mid-May. wife; of Herr ScbrOder. Last
Herr Kohl is unlikely to go Saturday the couple cefebratr
voluntarily, and the party ' - ed their five-month-oKi mar-

firpA contender for the Chan-
beBriy — wife a party in.

Hanover. Doris used theocca- ■
Sian to make dear that shewill

eketifin team. She has parted...
by potting Km on a diet and is
dressing him; in Annani .and
Hugo Boss; her «m is plainly
to; make 'fee challenger look
younger tharihis54 years and.

- ijms emphasise that the
election is about genera-.
tinnal cbpnffT Her in¬
fluence.thought is;
starting to go well be?
ytmd mage-mooldfag.

Erau Sdnwer is help-'
mm mg tnbmM bridges with
Bavaria, her farmer home,
where Catholic voters h ave to
be persuaded fear a divorced
man can still, lead Germany.
The Hanover party inducted
Social Democrat pol itic ia n s
and journalists from Bavaria.

The generation gap is more
visible between fee contend¬
ers’vrives-Tb be elected, Herr

of her husband flickered on to
the screen. "Big Daddy is
i." she

told her

BSSSttedb. Dons Schroder, a. highfigh* d- generodon gap

. - __ .. __I in uihirh chp ahvaVS SC

Schrfrfe* - bos to mimic some

voluntarily, and the party eo mar .. Kohl torette-

probably cannot steel itself to • itage -s- and of course HeiT a sp eQa._ _ - A j-jnni.r The
push him out. although opin- SdSxJert; appomtinenl as Of- sure voters m fee centre. The

two wives are not constrained
in the same way. Pniu Kohl,
an interpreter in French and
English, is the daughter of a
designer of anti-tank rocket
launchers- She was 12 when
.-the war.ended, and had to

stru

„ to survive in fee
of a village outside

Leipzig.

' Hannelore Kohl thus shares
her husband's European vi¬
sion. shaped by the misery of
war. Herr Kohl wan her over

with 2,000 love letters and
they have been married 38
years. For years, her public
appearances were limiled to
charity work. Now these trips
are interspersed with more
poitically sensitive meetings.

in which she always sends
"best greetings" from her hus¬
band. After a visit to a muse¬
um in Berlin the other day. she
stopped at a building site near
the future Chancellery. At fee
information stand a recording

watching us.
companion in English.

Frau Schroder intends to be
more intimately involved in
fee planning of his campaign.
There are dangers. When
Hiflu Schroder started to as¬
sert her personal politics too
strongly, her husband lost
ground in the opinion polls.
The Germans, it seemed, did
not want a Bill and Hillary
Clinton double act

Herr Schroder managed to
turn a messy divorce into
electoral advantage. Hillu, he
let it be known, refused to
serve him sausage at home
and so he had to stop on the
way to the office. When he
drank too much — he says he
can down 15 beers without
becoming seriously intoxicat¬
ed — he was forced to sleep on
the sofa.

The heart of every old-
fashioned German male went
out to him. The new Frau
Schroder thus has to tread
carefully in her campaigning.
Quite apart from her politics
— she is a pragmatic centrist
like her husband — she is
determined that he will not
lose the carnivore vote.

The menu for her belated
wedding party last weekend
tells it all: the main dish was
duck.

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Britain snubbed
as Austria
early euro

FROM'CHARLES BRBMNER IN BRUSSELS

it unite

*

BRITAIN will be given its first
taste of exclusion from the ■
future “Euro-X" council, the
dub of European Union single
currency states, as early as
mid-May under plans floated
yesterday by FVance an{ ^
Austria. : .

Although the euro is not due
to be launched until next
January, EU governments
want to start meeting to co¬
ordinate policies soon after fee
May 2summit feat wfll dwose
the states sharingthefuture
c urre ncy. The tim i ng is deli¬
cate for fee Government
because it chairs EU business
as the holder of fee six-monfe
presidency until July!.' >

Viktor Klima, the Austrian
Chancellor, whose Govern¬
ment succeeds Britain,, has-
offered to run tiae firstsesrion
of the. new coundL aJxxSy—
whose existence waS-fiexcdy—
opposed by Tony Blair at, fee
Luxembourg summit last De-
cembdri DomMque Strauss-'
Kahn; the Erenfe Fmi>nee
Minister, called yesterday far
fee firstTneeting m JMay 19..
before a rejpilar finance mm:
isters" session. He said feat uie
council was not anti-British.
But Ids remarks made dear-
feat Prance. Wanted fa. more
- quickly tomrest fee body, with
real power. -

The May summit, to oe

diairedhythePfeneiyfiifeta,
js ecpected to choose 11 states
far fee first wave of fee euro.
Britain, Sweden and Den¬
mark are opting out and
Greece has failed to pass tbe
entrance teste^.

the. Chancellor, recalled that
fee EU leaders had promised
Mr Blair that non-euro states
could , attend .fee euro dub
whenever wwnitere of EU-wide
interest were to be discussed.
Britain played down, the sig¬
nificance of an early launch.

Britain received complaints
yesterday frpm German and
Dutxfe'Hnance Ministers who
were unbappy ata de cision to
aHow tiansport ministers to
debate too 1991 .-derision to

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ain' and most other member
states tri any reversal <rf fee
•' 1991 decision.

French and German Finance
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Albanians defy
Serb order for
quick funerals

SERBIAN security forces yes¬
terday threatened to throw the
bodies of 51 ethnic Albanians
who died in the two-day
assault on the village of Prekaz
into a pit communal grave
unless their funerals were
quickly arranged.

The grisly business of clear¬
ing the dead from the battle¬
field confirmed the worst fears
of the Red Cross and human
rights groups: that women,
children and the elderly bone
the brunt of the repression of
families with links to the
Kosovo Liberation Army
(KLA).

The latest delivery of bodies
takes the total death toll from
an action that has now lasted
ten days to 75 — 24 died in the
first villages to be attacked,
Likoshani and Qirez. Another
group of villages is still ringed
by the security forces and it is
almost certain the final body
count will be well over 100.

For the first time in three
days, police allowed journal¬
ists and the Red Cross through
to the town of Srbica at the
heart of the Drenica region
and the centre for the opera¬
tion to eradicate the KLA.

Three police trucks arrived
in the town in the early
afternoon and deposited 51
bodies at a road maintenance
warehouse. One of the Albani¬
ans who unloaded the trucks,
Sajdi Ahmetaj. said many of
the dead were badly burnt.

Tom Walker

in Srbica
reports on
the victims
of repression

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out limbs and jaws.

“It seemed that many of
them died from cannons and
shells. This is just like what
happened in Bosnia." He said
the bodies were laid out in a
row and covered by sheets. Of
the 51,28 have been recognised
— 21 of them from Prekaz’s
most numerous and powerful
family, the Jasharis. long sus¬
pected by die Serbian authori¬
ties of having KLA links.

“They fought for three

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Bodies of ethnic Albanians, killed in the Serb
attack on Kosovo rebels, piled up in Srbica

days," said Mr Ahmetaj.
These men were determined
to defend their households,
and not to see their women
raped and have their own
throats cut."

Six of the bodies were too
badly burnt to be recognised
while 13 of the dead were
women, 12 children. 15 men
and six elderly. Police did not
allow journalists access to the
warehouse during the after¬
noon — they said the journey
was too dangerous — so the
numbers could not be verified.

Balancing the Albanian side
of the massacre story with
information from the Ministry
of the Interior is impossible
because the police have no
spokesman in Pristina, the
capital of Kosovo. At the town
hall, journalists were rold that
they would have to send faxes
to Belgrade with any ques¬
tions, and would then be
considered by a committee.
“The record for an answer is
seven days." said one of the
town hall functionaries.

Nazif Goxhali, a doctor at
Srbica’s crumbling hospital,
said the Democratic League of
Kosovo was demanding an
international postmortem ex¬
amination on the bodies from
Prekaz. “The police have told
us they will throw them in a
pit bur we must have interna¬
tional witnesses to know how
these people died," he said.

He also appealed for deliv¬
eries of food and medicines to
the area which he claimed was
still blockaded by the police.

Both Dr Goxhali and Mr
Ahmethaj said they believed
the former ammunition fac¬
tory at Srbica, the headquar¬
ters of the black-uniformed
anti-terrorist unit leading the
offensives against the KLA.
was also being used as a
detention centre. They claimed
that at least 50 women and
children had been kept there,
and that those released were
too frightened to talk about
their experiences.

They advised journalists
against driving southwest of
Srbica, where they said the
roads to Uaushe and Vqjnik.
the new targets of the clamp-
down, was cut by police snip-

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Chirac from senior academy , tIir right to alter
dans,, pointing . out Chat «*** SaS. the aczd*
women Cabinetmmwtere ^ French

have taken to calling them- mayor, president

selves “Madame UMmjs- mascu-

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linguistic orthodoxy. holding the

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academy secretary, declared, canons co . dl £££.

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which is.a fun-

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the acaderiii
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average age of
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speaking re-
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Chris Wenner, who was filmin g the Pristina demonstration for ITN, being
helped by Albanian journalists after he was beaten up fay Serbs

IUIUK& -- ,

Lionel Jospin, the Prime under way. In Quebec, fradi-
Minister, waded' into this tionaliy masculine words
linguistic minefield in "sup- such as auteur (author),
port of his women ministers prof esse ur (professor) ■ and
by arguing that French titles ierivain (writer) have devel-
should be given a-feminine- oped female forms: one
form wberever pissible In a • auteure, une professeure and
note to the Cabinet, timed to une toivaine. But the acade-
comcide with International my has conceded that while it
Women's Day on Sunday. M cannot police the use of the
Jospin called on his Govern?- French language worldwide,
merit “to feminise the names - “it is not for France to give

ers. Most refugees from the
area have been flooding into
Pec, further to the west. All
along the rain-shrouded val¬
leys leading to Srbica. police
could be spotted, discernible
by the smoke rising from their
fires in tiie scrub-covered hill¬
sides. Yesterday, they wore
green and ye flow ponchos
over their blue uniforms, and
their black-uniformed col¬
leagues were not to be seen.*
Despite official statements
from Belgrade that the
Drenica action is almost over
and that the KLA has been
nearly eradicated, fear still
stalks the whole region. Alba¬
nians are only just daring to
venture out into the open
again — many of the men are

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still hiding in the woods
covering the higher ground —
and whole villages lie
deserted.

Quite apart from damaging
tiie KLA. the brutal reprisals
have altered die social struc¬
ture of the* Prekaz and
Ukoshani areas, where the
leading families in a still,
feudal society have been
wiped out

In Pristina, more than
100,000 Albanians marched
through the streets yesterday
in protest at the continued
dampdown. The Serbian riot
police were nowhere to be
seen, a sign tiiat President
Milosevic of J Yugoslavia is_
somehow ' hoping to mollify
President Clinton's Balkan en-

Danes set
for big
poll swing
to Right

From Christopher Follett

IN COPENHAGEN

DENMARK votes tomorrow
in what promises to be a
clifihanger general election,
with opinion pollsters predict¬
ing a solid swing to the Right
and a possible change of
government.

A Galhjp survey in the daily
Bertingske Tidende showed
the opposition centre-right
block, led by the liberals and
Conservatives, seemingly
poised to oust the centre-left
coalition of Foul Nyrup Ras¬
mussen, the Social Democrat
Prime Minister, with a com¬
bined 51 per cent of the vote
and 92 seats in the 179-
member parliament-
The Social Democrats, their
Radical Liberal coalition part¬
ners and left-wing groupings
supporting the Government,
are predicted to win 47 per
cent of the vote and S3 seats
overall. The Right can also
count on two or three of the
four seats of the North Atlan¬
tic provinces of Greenland
and the Faroe Islands.

The election, which comes
six months before the end of
the Government's term, takes
place after a lacklustre three-
week campaign focusing on
domestic issues: maintaining
and improving the wamb-to-
tomb welfare state; protecting
the environment; further re¬
ducing unemployment, now at
about 7 per cent compared
with more than 12 per cent
when Mr Rasmussen came to
power: and maintaining the
economic upturn.

Immigration and refugees
have been the hottest topics,
reflecting increasing xenopho¬
bia. with the small, far-right
nationalist Danish People's
Party campaigning on an anti-
immigration platform and set
to win 8 per cent of the vote,
according to tiie polls. Of
Denmark's 52 million popu¬
lation, 4.7 per cent are foreign
citizens.

Uffe Ellemann-Jensen. the
opposition leader, has pledged
to scrap Denmark’s opt-outs
from the Maastricht treaty,
including its exemption from
participating in Europe's sin¬
gle currency, if he becomes
Prime Minister.

vay, Robert Gelbard, when he
arrives in Kosovo today.

Chris Wenner, a camera¬
man for ITNews in London,
was pummelled by three
Serbs after he filmed one of
them waving a gun at the
Albanian protesters and kiss¬
ing it during the demonstra¬
tion. He suffered a fractured
cheekbone and was last night
in a “stable" condition in
hospital. '

□ Zagreb: Bujar Bukoshi, the
“Prime Minister" in exile of
Kosovo, said tiiat indepen¬
dence was his supporters’
minimum demand. “Not au¬
tonomy —it would be impossi¬
ble to organise that now," he
told Feral Tribune, a news- ,
pape$ in Croatia. (AFP) .

of professions, functions;
ranks or titles^vhen theuw pf
a feminine fonti is in common
usage”. The Prime Minister,
who has appointed eight
women to his Cabinet, noted
such examples as directrieeos

such deviant examples, partic¬
ularly not members of the
Government".

Defiant women Cabinet
ministers say they have no
intention of reverting to “Ma¬
dame Le Ministre". Environ-

the female form of directeur meat - Minister Dominique
(director) and conseffli&re Voynet, said almost everyone
rather than conseiller now uses the feminised form.

rather than conseiller now uses the feminised form,
(advism)/' . : But the Acadferaie Fran-

The phrase “common ns- prise is adamant To bolster
age” appeared' calculated to Its case, tiie purists pointed
enrage the conservatiye-acad- out that all three . female
emy, and yesterday’s cpnirfer- members of die Acadonie
attack was* swift “Jospin is Francaise,outofato!alof32Q,
like a Pasha surrounded by have agreed to caH themselves
his harem,"declared the writ- academiciens .
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£300m paid out in French
arms scandal, says Dumas)

From Ben Macintvre

IN PARIS

ROLAND DUMAS; the So¬
cialist former Foreign Minis¬
ter. struggling to extricate
himself .from,. a_ coriuption
scandal, denied yestenlay re¬
ceiving commission from tiie
sale of French arms to Taiwan
in 1991, but claimed that about
£300 million had been paid to
others as part of the deal.

M Dumas — a dose ally of
Francois Mitterrand, the late
President — who is now head
of the country’s highest bourt,
will be questioned by magis¬
trates next week and is likely
to be formally investigated on
fraud and corruption charges,
according to news reports in
France.

While proclaiming his inno¬
cence and refusing to:resign,
M Dumas said that, the
amount of cash involved in the
shadowy deal was ten times
higher than previously report-.
ed and claimed that he could
reveal the names of those who
took the money.

“I can only say that the
commission, paid with the au-

Dumas: questioned

thorisation of: the Finance
Ministry and -presidency,' was
far lajcger . than we have
heard,” M Dumas fold Le Fig¬
aro, yesterday. “The-commis-.
Siam was about $500 million.
The names' of those who
■received it, which it is not my
intention to reveal here,, are
mentioned in a document
linked to this case.”^

M Dumas' oblique threat to
expose other senior members
of the former Mitterrand Gov¬
ernment comes ata potentially

damaging moment for the-
Socialist-' Party before naj.
Sunday’s regional elections,-?^
The decision to sell sit,
. Lafayettedass frigates to TaE
wan, a reversal of the previous;
policy of! mollifying China;
was taken by President Mit¬
terrand knd the then ■Prim^
Minister. M.Dumas ' saict,
Edith. Cresson was - Prrnte
Minister when the deal was
announced in September 199L;

*f had to go along with £M
dedsioru i then had to do n#
best to arrange things on i|
diplomatic level with Beijing,!
M. Dumas. 75. said. ^

M Dumas 1 home and offic^d
were searched by investigM
tors in January and Eva Joiy.f
magistrate;, has summonec
him for further questioning oi
March 18. - !

□ Authors must pay: A
French court yesterday or¬
dered two authors and their
publisher to pay about
.Ei00,000 jointly in damag®
and £90,000 in fines for implfr
eating Francois Leotard, a
former Defence Minister, in
■ tiie murder of Yann Piat, an
anti-corruption crusader. (APf

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co-operation as inspectors complete first checks

Annan: negotiated deal

-B* James Bone
IN NEW YORK
AND MfhfAELBVANS.

. DEFENCE CCWRESPONDETfr

UNITED 7 NATIONS aaros inspec¬
tors have succissfully Completed the
first check of sensitive sites in Iraq
since the recent crisis ancfyesterday
praised Baghd&dte "terrific spirit of
ctKtperaiiqrr. : : -

Hans art-heing made-to send
diplamats.and weapons inspectors
from the UN Special Commission
(Unscom) into President Saddam
Hussein'S dght palaces in about two ■
weeks, UN officials said yesterday...

An Unscom team led by Scott Ritter,
the .former US Marine who has
been .'denounced by Iraq as an
.American spy, yesterday completed
vislrs to several sites linked to the
country's intelligence services from
which the Team bad been barred in
January. .

A senior UNoffidal said the co¬
operation shown by Iraq provided
grounds for optimism that Baghdad
would abide by the weapons inspec¬
tion agreement ^negotiated with
Kofi Annan, the UN Secretary-
General.

The UN published yesterday de-

tailed procedures for the inspections

of the eight presidential palaces. At
least two diplomats, drawn from a
pool of officials stationed in Bagh¬
dad and nearby countries, will
accompany each inspection team.
The diplomatic escorts will not have
power to stop an inspection but will
be able to make a public report on
the inspectors' conduct
Although Britain and the United
States are among die countries
invited to supply diplomats, it is
unlikely they will be used because
neither country has diplomatic rep¬
resentation in Baghdad. A Foreign
Office'official in London said the
arrival of British diplomats in Iraq

would alert Iraqi authorities !o
impending palace inspections.

The l?N has told Iraq that if plans
to mount "baseline” inspections of
all eight presidential sites, totalling
1.058 buildings, in about two weeks.
Further inspections will be held as
needed.

Jayaxiiha Dhanapala. the Sri
Lankan commissioner responsible
for assembling the groups of diplo¬
mats and weapons inspectors, is due
to 3rrive in Baghdad this week to
prepare for the inspections and will
remain in the country until the first
checks of presidential sites have
been completed. Richard Butler, the

chief UN weapons inspector, also
plans 10 travel lo Iraq this manlh.

The detailed programme for in¬
specting Saddam’s palaces was sent
to the Security Council for approval
yesterday. -

Mr Annan also said that he would
consider Moscow's proposal for a
Russian to be a new deputy head of
the special inspection programme
for the palaces. Mr Butler has one
deputy. Charles Duel for, who is an
American.

British officials said that provided
Russia was not trying ro oust the
present deputy head. Britain was
happy for Russia to take a more

prominent role in Unscom. In
London, Foreign Office officials
expressed satisfaction with the way
Mr Annan had handled ihe details
over the palace inspections. After
Mr Annan returned from Baghdad
there were concerns that the word¬
ing of the agreement signed with
Iraq, in particular the reference to
“special procedures'* for inspecting
the presidential sites, might create
loopholes for the Iraqis.

However, Mr Annan has made
clear since returning to New York
that he intended to resolve the
procedural details solely with Mr
Butler.

LM. OTERO/AP

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writ over

From Ian Brodie in Washington

AN ANGRY woman threat¬
ened to sue President Clinton
yesterday on extraordinary
grounds — that he denies
having an affair with her.

Dolly Kyle Browning, who
claims Mr Clinton railed her
"My Pretty Girl" and that they
were lovers off and 'on for
three decades, said the denial
was defamatory and damag¬
ing to sales of her 1 novel, a
thinly disguised account of the
alleged affair.

This incongruous twist to
Mr Clinton's woman troubles -
stems from sharply conflicting
accounts over what was said
when they met at their high
school’s 30-year reunion in
Hot Springs, Arkansas, in
1994.

Everyone who was there
remembers that the pair sat on
a couple of stacking chairs in a
corner of the ballroom, talking
intensely for 45 minutes.

In Mr Clinton's version,
given during his leaked- depo¬
sition in the Paula Jones
sexual harassment case, Mrs
Browning launched into a
•'jealous tirade” about how
unhappy she. was that they
had never slept together, and
threatened to write a book,
claiming they had. .

His testimony continued
that during ffie conversation
be emphasised to her that ‘
their relationship had not
been sexual Sfttf%aid she had
loved him for'years and that

she needed money as much as
--.Gennifer Flowers, who had
‘ sold the stoiy of her affair with
Mr Clinton to a newspaper.' .
- Alarmed by her tone. Mr
Clinton said he called over an
aide as a witness. Bade in
Washington, he wrote two
pages of longhand notes about
tile confrontation'and checked
them with the aide before
storing them in a folder under
his desk.

Mrs Browning, a Dallas
property lawyer, said yester¬
day: “He’s lying and has
committed perjury. What kind
•.of bizarre behaviour would it
be for a woman to go into a
jealous tirade in front of 300
people because a man had not
slept w&her?"

■ In her own deposition in die
Jones case, Mrs Browning
- said a Secret Sendee agent
became 1 alarmed when she
swore at tire President in the
’ ballroom, but Mr Clinton
waved ihe agent away! At no
time, she said,, was an aide
listening to the conversation.
Mrs Browning has said that
Mr Clinton asked her if she
would like to . came to Wash¬
ington and .start: again as
before.. ' ■ . .

Mrs Browning ' declared:'
‘I’m going to talk-fo a lawyer
about this because I’m consid-
•ermg a lawsuit If this guy is
* saying-we’ve never had a-
"ria&tkmship, thafS certainly
damaging sales of the book.

He's calling me a crazed liar."
. In tiie meantime, she said, she
has given a new: sworn state¬
ment to Mrs Jones'S lawyers
rebutting President Clinton's
deposition. -

Her version of the reunion is
the prologue to Purposes of the
Heart, which she and her
third husband have published
privately and are selling at
www.dearddlly.com over the
Internet.

An author's note says the
book is loosely based on a true
story but that names have
been changed to protect the
guilty.

This week Mr Clinton’s
personal secretary. Betty Cur¬
rie, is due to be Trailed before
the grand jury investigating
whether he had an affair with
Monica Lewinsky and pres¬
sured her to lie about it

In the six weeks since Mrs
Currie last testified, contradic¬
tions have emerged about
whether it was Mr Clinton or
Mrs Cuirie who initialed the
plan for Vernon Jordan, the
President's advisor, to help
Ms Lewinsky to find a job at a
tune when lawyers in the
Jones case were trying to
question hec.

Mr Clinton’s deposition ap¬
parently implied that Mrs
Currie acted on her own,
although Mr Jordan has said
that he kept the President
informed about all the help he
gave to Ms Lewinsky.

Extremists try
to stop prize
for Amos Oz

■ From Christopher Walker in Jerusalem

Dolly Kyle Browning said the President’s denial was defamatory and damaging
to sales ofbcex novel, which is a thinly disguised account of their alleged affair

AMOS OZ, the Israeli novel¬
ist yesterday became the tar¬
get for ultra-nationalists
determined to prevent his
receiving the Israel Prize for
literature because of his past
criticism of Jewish settlers in
the occupied West Bank.

The row erupted as
Binyamin Netanyahu, the
Prime Minister, rejected the
suggestion made in London
by Tony Blair that the build¬
ing of settlements should be
halted in an attempt to rescue
the peace process.

Zvi Hendel, a settlers' lead¬
er ami Knesset deputy for the
influential National Religious
Party — a key backer of Mr
Netanyahu's ruling Likud co¬
alition — said that Mr Oz.
well known as a peace cam¬
paigner, should be denied the
prize because of a 1989 news¬
paper column in which he
called Jewish extremists a
“Jewish Hezbollah”, a refer¬
ence to the Iranian-backed
militants fighting Israeli
troops in south Lebanon.

“However gifted an author
he is, one who singled out a
respectable part of the public,
true pioneers... and slanders
them... is not fit to receive the
Israel Prize." Mr Hendel told
Israel radio.

In the offending article, Mr
Oz said that extremist Jewish
settlers in the West Bank were
a “deformed, obtuse and cruel
cult that burst forth several
years ago from a cloudy
comer of Judaism and threat¬
ens to destroy all that is dear
and holy to us". Mr Oz said
yesterday that “the article, in

its time, was directed against
the most radical of the
settlers".

The son of Polish immi¬
grants whose widely admired
works include Black Box. A
Perfeci Peace. Don't Call it
Night and Touch the Water:
Touch the Wind. Mr Oz is a
complex character who. al¬
though he criticised vehe¬
mently Israel’s 1982 invasion
of Lebanon, fought in the Sue
Day War of 1967 and the Yom
Kippur War of 1973.

Yesterday. Moshe Shamir,
a fellow novelist noted for his
right-wing views, took issue
with the campaign to black¬
ball Mr Oz from the country's
leading prize. “I disagree with
those who want to take away
the Israel Prize from Oz since
he is receiving the prize for his
popular, terrific literary cre¬
ations and not for his arti¬
cles.” he said.

Oz attacked extremist
settlers as “cruel cult"

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Democrat 'hustler’ vows to name donors

Washington: Johnny Chung,
a Democratic fundraiser who .
was known around the White
House as a “hustler", has.
agreed to plead guflty and
name names in the inquiry
into illegal contributions to
President Clinton’s re-election
campaign (lan Brodie writes).

His plea bargain is the first

major break for investigators.
A key question is whether he
can throw.any light on' allega¬
tions that China tried to buy
influence with the US Govern¬
ment by pumping overseas
cash into the campaign.’

Mr Chung, 43, aTaiwanese-
American entrepreneur, was
appearing in. court- in Los

Angeles yesterday to admit
channelling $20,000 (ETZ200)
in Segal donations to the
Clinton campaign.

This was a fraction of Iris
alleged deception. He visited
the White House 49 times and
donated $366,000, including a
cheque for $50,000 that he
handed directly to Hillary

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war, it seems. In his first interview
with a Western journalist for two
years, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the
ousted Prime Minister recently re¬
turned from exile in Iran, laid out a
blueprint for peace. "A military
solution is not the answer." he said. “I

propose dialogue, a cease- _

fire, an interim government .

leading to proper elections. 6 J

We need to find an Afghan
solution." He was speaking 311

to The Times in a heavily
fortified compound on the
outskirts of the northern city of
Mazar-i-Sharif. the focus of resis¬
tance against Taleban, the Islamic
purist movement which controls the
southern two thirds of Afghanistan.
The city has been on a knife-edge
since September, when Taleban cap¬
tured it for the second time in a year.
For a second time they were repulsed,
at the cost of thousands of lives.
Truckloads of heavily armed men

cruise the muddy streets by day. and
enforce a stria curfew at night The
tension is perhaps worse than usual,
because the leaders of the so-called
Northern Alliance, the motley collec¬
tion of Mujahidin and former Com¬
munists ranged against Taleban.
have been meeting in Mazar to

C His goals are a ceasefire and
an interim Kabul government 3

discuss the war. The city is about to
become the alliance's official capital:
Burhanuddin Rabbani, still the re¬
cognised President, is expected to
announce a new coalition Cabinet
this week, an alternative administra¬
tion to the Taleban regime in
Kandahar and KabuL
"I am here because of repeated
invitations," Mr Hekmatyar said.
*They wanted me to be a part of the

Rabbani Government, but coalition
is not the solution — l seek no role in
it I have not joined the alliance."

Tall and stately, with a black beard
and blade turban to match, there is
no question that Mr Hekmatyar has
gravitas. It was the fierce fight for
Kabul in 1995 between him. and

_ another legendary Muja-

hidin leader. Ahmed Shah
id Masood. the former De-

fence Minister, which led to
,t s the chaos that spawned

Taleban. But there is a
certain logic in his position.
“Hezb-i-Islami [his party] terhe only
party that can unite Afghanistan — it
is the only national party. We have
support in both north and south." he
said. "If Hezb-i-Islami were to show
partiality, there could never be
peace." Cynics might point out that
this is a way of saying that Hezb-i-
Islami is hopelessly split. Many of
Mr Hekmatyar’s commanders had
defected to Mr Masood's ethnic Tajik

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an 18-month interim government in
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interim government might be drawn.
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one in Af ghanis tan was non-parti¬
san, he replied: . ~I can think of - a
hundred”.—then declined to name a
single one.

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serious repercussions pa Abdu p A ziz said last

King. Crown P™ 1 *

g^SrSyriTwho telephoned roinquiro about
the monarch's health, news
agencies reported. The royaJ
palace called for prayert for tus
early recovery. King Fahd was
aifautted to hospital! in Novem¬
ber 1995 after, suffering a stroke
and called on his half-brother,
the Crown Prince, to run affaire
of state for six weeks. The
monarch recovered - and re¬
turned to his duties, although
Prince Abdull ah. 74, has in-
'c reasin giy played a more prom¬
inent role. (AFP) L

Paki stan train blast kills 10

UborcTen people wot killed and 40 othere tajUrf
when a bomb ripped through a tram Mv dlrog ftroog 1 ;
Pakistan’s eastern Punjab provuice. Resoie workers used
saws and blowtorches to free trapped passengers. A
second bomb exploded at a courthouse m SxMoir m
soufliem Sindh, injuring eight including five pmiceiTien.
No group dalmed responsibility for atheT bombing. (AP)

Waco g unm an surrenders

A siege in Waco. Texas, scene of the storming of the
Branch Davidian cult headquarters by the FBI in 1991
ended peacefully when an embittered Vktoaju ex-service¬
man surrendered after holding off police with a rifle for 14
hours inside a -veterans’ benefits office (lames Bone
write^/Jason Leigh. 48, also maintains a website^accusing
the Government of covering up purported UFO sightings.

Liz Taylor allowed home

■ Los Angeles Elizabeth Taylor.

left, was released from hospital;
- ten days after falling on htir
' * 66th birthday. She wQl be
confined to.'bed in her Bel Air
■ home for several days. Shiririe
/ Ann Cobum. a spokeswoman.

. said: ‘She’s stiQ in a little pant
/ She will be iii.bed for a litdp
whfle." The Oscanwinning ac¬
tress fdl at ' her home on
. February 27 and suffered .a.
; fracture in her lower bade . (AP)

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Lagos: A aimmater bus exploded after colliding heacfcpn
with a car in AWe Gber vQla^ in the northern Nigerian i
state of Benaft kflling 30 people, mdodmg several,
children, who were burned alive. Several passengers were
carrying petrol. A' fuel shortage has prompted many '

HIV prisoner in suicide bid

Melbourne An HlV-posSive Australian, jailed far hating-
unprotected sex, was on life siqiport after hanging himself
on his seccnad day in prison. The Age said. The 52-yearold
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*sts are within striking dis-'
^noe of forming a coalition
pvemment in India, taking
* P® second most popu-
bus cocmtry into uncharted
plrticaj waters.

Ttafr main rival, the Cbn-
ifess Party, desperate'to re-
we the vote-catching Gandhi
-rame, may finally have suc-
^ .Persuading Sonia
Gandhi to take over as leader.
i role she unofficially occupies
«5 principal behind-the-scene .
manipulator of party events.

The widow of Rajiv Gandhi,
rie assassinated former Prime
Minister, boosted her author-
ty after a successful campaign
prformance in the general
eection. in which she uri-
tfaub tedly saved the party
fiom a rout She may. now
abandon her pledge to stay our
o' day-to-day politics in order
tc secure control of the party
ftr the eventual suixession of
me of her two children, the"
odest of whom, Priyanka, is
Z, Even if she refuses the top
jcb, Mrs Gandhi will be - die
plwer behind the throne.

- Sitaram Kesri, 83, the party
p-esident resigned yesterday
aid Mrs Gandhi is likely to be ■
aked formally today, to take
o*er. He was., essentially
krked out by Mrs Gandhi,
vho refused to let him share-
aiy election platform wth her

Christopher
Thomas writes

and kept, him uninformed
about crucial party events.

Mr Kesri, whose disastrous
bid for the prime ministership
last year led to ah unwanted
and unnecessary, election,
avoided direct criticism of Mrs
. Gandhi but did not hide his
bitterness at being humiliated
by her. “No self-respecting
person oould tolerate' the way
things happened'daring die
last two months," he said.

The. pro-Hindu Bharatiya
Janata Parly (BJP), presenting
a more moderate image after
rising to prominence in the
i98Qs on . a platform of rdi-
gious extremism, has unani¬
mously chosen' Atal Behari
Vajpayee, a respected, former
Pbreign Minister, as its prime
ministerial candidate. '. -.

Mr Vajpayee, seeking to
assuage the fairs of Indian 120.
nuffion MusUrhs/said "Thtre-
should npt.be any apprehen¬
sion about the BJP;'* The party

Sonia Gandhi: to be asked

ieadCongress

and its allies an? stiff short of a
parliamentary majority, but
that may be the best India can
expect of its next government
after an election that gave
. nobody a mandate.

.. If the BJPformsanadmirus-
. tration.ii will be too weakto
implement the demands of its
more extreme wing Its coali¬
tion partners are mostly fickle
friends, tempted to jean forces
for short-term political gain,
and there is little Hk&Uhood
that such a government would
fastaitye-yearteim

it would not even command
: enough votes to implement
some of its central dectinn
pledges, including scrapping
Article 370 of the Constitution,
which gave special status to
Kashmir, the only Muslim-

- majority state,' when it joined
India in late 1947. Nor would it
be able, to scrap Muslim
personal law. which permits
the taking of up to four wives.

- Its pledge to conduct a
nuclear test might also be
impossible to honour because
of the inevitable political and
economic imputations, it
would jeopaitfise Western aid
and trigger a reaction from
Pakistan, which has, or is

; dose to possessing, nudear
bombs — taking one of the
world's most dangerous
flashpoint closer to nuclear
.conflict

Hie BJP*s economic policies
focus on the philosophy of
svmdeshi (setf-reliancej,' and
the party has- already devised
a slogan urging Indians to be

- patriotic by buying Indian
goods. Its promise to “reform
the reforms"—to look again at
economic liberalisation intro¬
duced seven years ago—could
lead to an did in foreign in¬
vestment outside the key sec¬
tors of power, roads and
water.

Mr Vajpayee hopes that
President Narayanan will this
week call on him to form a
government To survive the
combined votes of the Con¬
gress and the United Front, a
coalition of centre'and left-
wing parties, the BJP and its
allies will have to persuade
one or two small regional
parties to abstain. - - i =.

Students demonstrate yesterday at the University of Indonesia in Jakarta against the planned seventh five-year term of President Suharto

Suharto wins extra
emergency powers

Suharto awaits a foreign delegation wanting him
-■ - to implement IMF-imposed economic reforms

PRESIDENT SUHARTO of
Indonesia was granred special
powers yesterday to maintain
national unity and deal with
any emergency.

He seemed to be digging in
for a long struggle against nor
only the International Mone¬
tary Fond but also world
opinion, while his people look
on bewildered. But his special
powers will be of little help> in
fending off foreign attention
and are clearly aimed ar the
home audience.

There is little that the Amer¬
icans can do to influence this
determined former soldier
onoe he has derided that he is
fighting for national dignity.
Perhaps it was no coincidence
that not far from the rubber-
stamp People* Consultative
Assembly where he was grant¬
ed these powers — no ques¬
tions asked — protesting
students threw down a gaunt¬
let to the Government de¬
manding complete political
reform. Ominously, no details
of the new powers were re-

From David Watts in Jakarta

f vealed bur they are thought to
I include the power to dissolve
i the assembly and deploy the
i army.

it is a measure of the powers
l and the effectiveness of the
r parliament under the New
Order Government that no
I one thought to ask the Presi¬
dent what were his require-
I menrs and why he needed any
i further authority to ad

i The students know their
country^ history well enough
to recall that it has always
been their duty to bring 3bout
change through protest and
this time seems likely to be no
different.

After a meeting with repre¬
sentatives of the military fac¬
tion in parliament last week,
the leaders of 1,500 demon¬
strating students at the Univ¬
ersity of Indonesia told a press
conference that they had come
away disappointed.

“We reject their calls for
gradual reform." said a stu¬
dent leader who called himself
simply Ahmed, one of seven

members of the University
Senate who met the press.
“Our message is that we must
have total political reform.

"We not only reject
Suhano's acceptance speech
for the presidency. We reject
his candidacy for President for
the next five years. We ac¬
knowledge that there has to be
action against corrupters but
this will not succeed unless
there is first complete political
reform."

On another day of uncer¬
tainty for the currency, the
rupiah, the main state batiks
intervened heavily to try to
stave off a calamitous collapse
in its value. The rupiah hit a
low of 12,300 to the American
dollar but closed ar 10,600.

Ironically the banks were
joined in their endeavour by
currency brokers who fear
that if there, is too rapid a
decline in the value of the
currency, it will give the
President an excuse to intro¬
duce a currency board to
manage the exchange rate.

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Police beat
students
at Harare
protest

From Jan Raath

IN HARARE

HEAVILY armed Znnbab-
wu riot police yesterday
boon-charged about 300 uni¬
versity and technical college
stidenis demonstrating in
Burarc for higher govern-
nrnt maintenance grants.

No confirmation could be
ottained from the police, but
win esses said that several
s&dents were injured as. they
fitd from police officers sur¬
rounding Education Minis¬
try offices- Police sealed off
tfc University of Zimbabwe^}
Harare campus and techni¬
cal colleges in the capital
afer warnings of a student
demonstration as a boycott
. by tertiary institutions, all
o«r the country went into its
second week.

Police also broke up a
de m onstration in the western
e£y- of Bulawayo. Reports
that shots had been, fired into
the air by the police could not
be confirmed. Peaceful dem¬
onstrations were held in
Gueru and Mwtare.

Learnmore Jongtre. ® e
president of the Zimbabwe

National Students’ Union,
said the value of grants had
dropped because of the cotra-
try’s economic crisis and stu¬
dents wen? “going to starve .

From Sam Kilby in Johannesburg

THE white-dominated rugby
establishment in South Africa
is challenging Nelson Man¬
dela’s presidential: powers in a
High Court battle to prevent
him from launching a com¬
mission of inquiry into racism
and mabidfoiutirijatiOn in the
sport

Once seen as the best way to
unite South Africa’s ethnic
groups, sport has become ihe
issue nfost likejy to end Mr
Mandela’s cherished- dreams
of reconciliation. Amid a spate
of alleged racist incidents on
the cricket pitch-and allega¬
tions of an anti-black, bias in
other sports, senior sjwrts
administrators have joined
calls for racial quotas to be
imposed on teams.

President Mandela will
appear in person within the
next couple of wedcs before
Mr Justice William De VII-
Ifers, himself a controversial
figure who opposed the admis¬
sion of blade lawyers to the
Pretoria bar in 1983.

Mr Mandela, 79, will be
asked to justify his decision to
appoint a commission of in¬
quiry into rugby after the
South African RugbyJFbotball
Union, a private organisation,
was accused by several mem¬
bers and independent consul¬
tants of financial irregular¬
ities. nepotism, mismanage-,
ment, a lad: of commitment to

rugby in poor (mainly blade
and mixed-race} areas and

. r acism.

The President decided
against giving evidence yester¬
day as originally scheduled,
bis spokesman said, adding:
“The President will - need
another week or two to pre¬
pare himself far the hearing."

President Mandela'S court¬
room adversary will be Louis
Luyt president of the rugby
union and a pillar of the
, apartiieid-era establishment,
who was implicated in foe
notorious 1976 “information
scandal" in which the former
South African Government

Mandela: preparing for
court appearance

was exposed trying to buy a
good press internationally.

The presidential commis¬
sion was set up after the rugby
union allegedly refused last
year to oo-operate with a
Sports Ministry inquiry into
racism and poor administra¬
tion. Mr Luyt. a burly former
Orange Free State rugby cap¬
tain and dose friend of former
Presidents Vorster and Botha,
has argued that foe establish¬
ment of a commission to in¬
vestigate the activities of a
private body was a violation of
his rights.

Whatever the legal argu¬
ments may be, there is no
doubt that administrators of
traditionally white-dominated
sports have been severely criti¬
cised for their alleged failure
to field non-whites at interna¬
tional level. Nobody of black
or Coloured origin is playing
regularly in the national crick¬
et or rugby sides.

Further, the normally gen¬
teel atmosphere surrounding
South African cricket matches
has been badly soured after
Fanie de VUIiers. Pat Syntax*,
his fellow Test bowler, and
Paddy Upton, the coach, were
ordered to appear before a
disciplinary hearing into rac¬
ist comments they were said to
have made to spectators dur¬
ing a Test against Pakistan
last week.

Condom Virgin’ art exhibit attacked

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damage. Ana . lh " da Vihtfs

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From Cathie Bell nv Wellington

praying and singing, protested in the
foyer of the Wellington museum at the
weekend. Cardinal Thomas. Wi ll i a ms ,
Archbishop of Wellington, complained to
the museum yesterday.

The Rev Graham Capill, leader of the
Christian Heritage political -party, said
that the museum would hive been more
sensitive to complaints if Maori groups
had beat complaining. The. museum

operated with double standards, he said,
adding that its attitude was disappoint-
tug in &e extreme- '

“If Maoris had been offended by. an
exhibit within hours tiie staff would have
addressed the problem. When Christians
are offended by an exhibit winch attac ks
a central figure of their faith, setarity is
increased and vows of seeing the exhibi¬
tion out are affirmed." Paul Brewer, for

the museum, said that the museum was
not being insensitive by continuing to
exhibit die works.

Cheryli Sotheian, the museum chief
executive, said that Ms Kovatss piece
reflected her desire to place a figure for
which die had deep respect, the Madon¬
na, in the context of her own life as a
young woman In contemporary Britain
and “into a context of her concerns about
issues of sexuality, contraception, safe sex
messages in the community, and abor¬
tion, which she feds the Catholic Church
should be considering".

Mr Brewer said that people vjsitingthe
museum were mostly indifferent to the
protests. More than 250*000 people have
visited the museum since it opened , on
February 14. Picture Britanruca has been
showing since March 1.

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The day I

conquered my

fear of flying

Julia Gorst reveals how a one-day course for nervous
passengers helped her to overcome her ‘aerophobia

T he day dawped wet and
miserable, an a ecu rare re¬
flection of my state of
mind. My task was to
conquer my fear of flying, which
had prevented me from going on a
plane for four years. The solution. I
hoped, was to attend a course for
first-time or nervous passengers at
Heathrow airport
I took food because previous
experience of flying told me that the
chance of liking anything laid on
was minimal. I took a magazine
because I knew that in the circum¬
stances I was about to encounter
nerves would prevent. me From
reading any more than the first
sentence of one article time after
time. And, for moral
support I took my
sister.

My family had been
warned by those run¬
ning the course that the
days before it would be
stressful and full of pan¬
ic. Apparently I had
been associating "doom,
despair and failure"
with the day ahead. On
the contrary, under¬
standing that the course
would culminate in a
flight 1 took perverse
pleasure in knowing that I would be
die one person who would refuse to
board the aircraft There would be
double satisfaction in this as British
Airways boasts a 100 per cent
success rate for this course.

On arrival we were welcomed

with smiles of reassurance and
congratulations for confronting our
feats in coming this far. The
morning was spent in a conference
hall uncomfortably dose to the
runway. Precisely why we were in
this room went unsaid but I expect
it was a not-so-subtle attempt to
prove how many planes take off
and land successfully each day. I
wasn't fooled, however 1 was well
aware that it .would be the one
plane I had avoided for the past
four years that would crash.

As the pilots lectured on ah
aspects of flying, from mechanics

I took

pleasure in

knowing l

would
refuse to
board

informative and almost persuasive
but many of us were still uncon¬
vinced. In a quesdon-and-answer
session even more possible disaster
scenarios were raised: "What if a
firework goes off near the plane?",
or "What if all the engines fail, the
pilot gets food poisoning and no
one on board can fly a plane?" The
response, quickly made, was that
“what if" questions were forbidden.

At lunch we were encouraged to
socialise and to discuss our fears
with fellow aerophobics. My sister
briefly left me alone to get a
sandwich and I concentrated on my
magazine (yes, that first sentence)
and my food. Either way I didn't
have to speak to a stranger — my
second phobia, for
which I hope there is a
fear of socialising"

irp in When my sister re¬
turned, I left her — the

older, friendly, more
confident, non-aero-

phoobic one — to the
same fate. When I reap¬
peared she was chatting
to a young, sweet-look¬
ing but dull man who
spoke of his claustro-
phoobic tendencies.
Whether we had asked
to know or cared was of no
importance to him: so we smiled
sympathetically — avoiding any
eye contact in case he got the wrong
message — until he bored even
himself.

After lunch we were introduced
co the cabin crew, who would have
the daunting task of coping with
potentially hysterical passengers.
Then came a session with a
psychiatrist who taughr us breath¬
ing and relaxation exercises. He
made us dose our eyes to exf«ri-
ence the flight in our imagination,
claiming this would trick the brain
into believing we were on a plane.
Maybe it worked for some, but not
for me. Anyway, the dosing of eyes
was our ticket to further relaxation,
and we were soon asleep, lulled by
the monotonous' pattern of the
psychiatrist’s voice guiding us on a

driven in coaches to the airport,
where several people experienced
minor panic attacks.

The rest of us chatted nervously
and. seemingly without worry
boarded the British Airways shut-
tie. I noted, suspiciously, the huge
smiles of the pilots and air stewards
as we boarded and could not help
wondering just why they were
grinning — they knew we could not
turnback. .

As the plane moved towards tire
runway, my mind was thrown back
into reality. The trance that had led
me from the hotel to the aircraft
subsided, and 1 realised they had
won: 1 was on a moving plane,
albeit one that was travelling at
only 5mph. I was, and remain,
unsure as to when I was offered the
choice of not going on the flight, or
when it was pointed out that I was
stepping on to the object of my least
desire.

A fter a short delay the
shuttle roared down the
runway and glided effort
lessly into the sky. The
flight, a round trip over the South
of England, was commentated on
by the co-pilot who explained every
noise and bump reassuringly. Sur¬
prisingly, I wasn't at all frightened,
bur actually enjoyed the flight and
the magnificent evening views of
the lights of London and Dover.
There were a few tense moments
during turbulence, but this had
been explained so thoroughly dur¬
ing the day that I knew there was
nothing to fear.

A few passengers had slight
panic attacks from claustrophobia
but otherwise everyone was calm
and relaxed. We had a smooth
landing, and there was a spontane¬
ous round of applause from the
passengers.

On disembarking we all received
certificates and the same big smiles
as when we boarded. Realising
now that these smiles were genu¬
ine. from people glad to. have
helped tis, I was able to respond
with the same warmth. My fear
had been conquered and i would
fly again.

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On the town, on the cheap

O 'life. In this dream, The Nineties are the downshifting decade. But what if you yearn bolognese that lasted^efour

an endless cycle of not for a better quality of life, simply a cheaper one in die city? live by pasta alone, so one day

Spendthrift Robert Johnston tries a spot of urban downsizing

O nce 1 dreamt 1 had a
life. In this dream,
rather than endure -
an endless cycle of '
working, drinking and sleep* '
mg, 1 would greet each new;
day with a song in my heart I '
would livein the Highlands,
i read War and Peace , take up. ;
sketching and treat every fiv- ■
mg creature 1 met on my long
treks across the moors with
the respect it deserves- Then I
woke up wandering If Brada
made wellies.

Iii die 1990s-ihaeei»s, that-*
every man aruif his- dog. bas ; h
upped sticks and moved to
Skye to team Gaelic, grow
potatoes and get-their fecks
; from 'the Internet But what
about me? If t took the road-to
, the. isles to breed scotties, it .
would be me who would end
up barking. 1 would sooner
open a patisserie in Putney
than weave tweed in Portree.

What I want to do is urban
downshift; get in touch with -
the real me while keeping the
shops, the people and the
entertainment I am not atone;
this is a growing trend as more
and more dry dwellers discov¬
er that the only way to have the
life they aspire to is to stay in
the city, but work less hard.

Recently I realised that my
stress levels .could propel the
Astra'satellite into orbit and it
was time to chill out on the
work front But hew could I
work less and still afford to
live in town? Whatever hap¬
pened I would have to pay ray
mortgage every month so I
.would have to look for savings
.in other areas. „

So when my latest heart¬
stopping Visa bill revealed the
. true cost of hard work, down¬
shifting seemed the obvious
solution. It couldn't be too
difficult, could it? Just a matter
of going out less and saving up
those money-off coupons on
the sides of washing-powder
packeis. In fact, die prospect
bathed me in a rosy glow of
nostalgia. As anyone who has
moved to a big city on leaving
college will agree, you seemed
to have a-better time on Jess

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■ Keep your head by becoming a hair
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■ Scour the small ads for an old bike
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■ Cultivate media chums for free
cinema tickets and review copies
of books

■ Become a culture vulture by visiting
museums during off-peak hours

■ Get drunk at home before you go
dubbing .

■ Stay well-read by joining the library
where papers are free

■ Forget the health club, play tennis in
the park

■ Reintroduce yourself to your old
clothes, they may be back in fashion

■ Stay in and play games - but no
gambling

to make an ersatz spaghetti
bolognese that lasted me four
days. Of course, man cannot
live by pasta alone, so one day
I treated myself to a takeaway
cheese and tomato pizza for a
liver. Still, a potential monthly
saving of £360. with scurvy
thrown in for free.

Actually. I cheated. I rang
up every friend who might
conceivably owe me dinner
and none too subtly called in
die debt I reckoned that if I
wasn’t too greedy, I could eat
out once a week for the next
month at least And by the
time the friends ran out my
digestion would be so shot to
hell that I wouldn’t be able to
tell Michel Roux from macaro¬
ni cheese — and Michelin-
starred cuisine would be
wasted on me anyway.

T he next consideration
was my wardrobe.
Over the years it had
seemed that whenev¬
er I asked someone where they
had bought a wonderful leath¬
er jacket etc, it was always a
charity shop. So off I went to
Age Concern. I did find a
pristine Hildrtch & Key dress
shirt for £3.50. but it would
haw taken many more
months of carrots and
sweetcom before I could do up
the collar. I decided to wear
what I already had until it fell
apart. Averaged out over a
year, that had to mean a
saving of £150 per month.

So that was it, 1 had planned
my urban downshift. And did
I feel ready to loosen the
shackles of work? No — J
might have worked out how to
save the equivalent of £770 per
month but ] felt miserable: I
realised that if I coaidnt drink
mint chocolate martinis, eat in
restaurants and shop in Bond
Street, then I might as well
move to Skye too. The only
thing that cheered me up was
a glass of champagne in the
Met Bar. I later learnt that
Madonna had been in that
day, but I didn’t see her — and
1 don’t suppose she would
want to learn Gaelic anyway.

money when you first arrived
than you do now, despite
earning three times as much.

i had spent £326.06 — not
counting cash — on going out
in a month. So. that was the
obvious place to start In my
fresh-faced graduate days,
going out for a drink meant a
few pints in the local; lately, it
is more likely to mean a couple
of glasses of champagne or a
cocktail; Having, noticed that
the pub around the comer was
selling Heineken at £1.50 a
pint, my first step to sanity
was • obvious. Rather than
spend £t+ on two glasses of
champagne, I could spend £3
on a couple bf pints, a saving
of around £100 per month. At
this rate 7 not only could i

change my life, I could buy a
BMW, too. All I had to do was
to persuade friends to meet me
in a dodgy pub in Ciapham.

The next obvious saving was
taxis. While I was happy to do
the crossword on pubbe trans¬
port in die morning, at the end
of a long day all 1 wanted todo
was get home, so 1 caught cabs
— cost per month: £200. As I
already bought a travel card
each week toe saving should
have been £200, but as the
trauma of walking to a packed
tube in the pouring rain and
catching a bus at the other end
left my nerves so jangled I had
to down a stiff gin and tonic
when I got home, so I am being
honest and reducing that to
£160. The other, great expense

after a hard day’s work is food.
When 1 got home the last thing
I wanted to do was cook, so it
was meals out three times a
week, takeaways and Marks &
Spencer’s best toe rest of toe
time. Thar set me back £400
per month, so there had to be
same fat to trim there.

What I needed was a trip
down memory lane to Soho's
Berwick Street market, where
I knew l would find bargains
galore. In those heady, irnm-
ediateIy-post-5tudent days, my
chronically broke flatmate,
Sasha, would trawl Berwick
Street to pick up produce that
wasn't going to make it to the
head day — from two dozen
avocados to half a whole brie
— for a song. The cheese might

haw been running down the
stairs, but after her guacamo-
le, who cared?

Deriding there was no mile¬
age in persimmons, 1 plumped
for a tray of peaches for a
pound. Brilliant. I thought,
but when I got home I realised
toe only thing I could think to
do with them was make belli-
nis. So I bought a bottle of
champagne, leaving me with a
a stinking headache, a pile of
rotten fruit — and I was £12
down.

Undefeated, I turned to the
two great friends of the termi¬
nally short of cash — carrots
and sweetcom. Whatever you
cook, these low-priced pals can
bulk it out by at least a
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Overwhelmed
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modern life

Junk faxes are intrusive, irritating and
hard to stop, says Magnus Linklater

T hey slide out of your fax
machine at strange
hours of toe day or
night They offer you mobile
telephones, lists of building
societies, repossessed bouses,
car insurers, cheap travel or
cut-price alcohol. Sometimes
they ask you unpleasant ques¬
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Or they tel] you unfunny jokes
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mail; it is there on your desk;
it challenges you to discard it
And it is very weinl Just
before Christmas f was of¬
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four Tdetubbtes in a competi¬
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I lenged me to name
two of them. It was *Thf

an offer I felt able
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poll was rather dif- T4ir

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give a reputable
pollster night- DC

mares, it asked ,

whether Hindley TO

should be freed, ______

paroled or left “to ’ ’
rot in jaff”. Just in case I was
in any doubt, a subsequent fox
informed me that she and Ian
Brady should have been
banged 3] years ago. This was
followed by another poll, on
hanging itself. To help to form
my view, 1 was told: ‘‘Some
do-gooders argue that the
death penalty is not a deter-
rent Well, it sure isn’t going to
encourage people, is it?”
Another pod on paedophiles,
suggested we could “solve the
problem permanently by cas¬
trating them".

Peter Hetcheon of Planet
Telecom, which runs these
surveys as well as doing
marketing work for industry,
told me he sent out 500,000
foxes an Hindley and had a
response of nearly 9,000 votes.
Since calls were charged at £1
a minute, it cost each voter, on
average, £2 to take part The
result: 94 per cent, according
to Hetcheon. thought Hindley
should be left “to rot in jail”.
He sent the result to the Home
Secretary, Jack Straw.

For firms such as Planet
Telecom, polls are merely a
sideline to. the really lucrative
work which comes from busi¬
ness. Hetcheon now has a
database of 2.1 million fox
numbers, and reaches about a
zniliion people each month
with his fox polls for com¬
panies testing or selling prod¬
ucts. The numbers come from
"suppliers” who comb
through fox directories, or
from companies who turn
over their customer lists in
return for access to others.
“It’s like collecting football
cards.” says Hetcheon. “We
do swaps."

His collection is about to

The poll
asked if
Hindley
should
be left
to rot*

increase dramatically. He in¬
tends to recruit 50 young
people under the Govern¬
ment’s back-to-work scheme
to collect even more numbers
and expand the business. And
he is unrepentant about the
irritation caused: “What
would you rather do? Waste
five minutes on the telephone
listening to someone trying to
sell you double-glaring, or
study a fox at your leisure?"

If, nevertheless, you do
resent it. you can ask Planet
Telecom to take you off its list,
and the company says it will
oblige. The trouble is. you
would have to contact a dozen
other companies as well, some
of them using an automatic
random dialling system
which scrolls through endless
numbers until it scores a “hit".

There is a consumer protec¬
tion agency called the Fax
Preference Service. You can
call it on 0541554555 and ask it
to shield your number from
__________ unwanted foxes, ft

" " " will add you to its

POll database and dr-

^ _ culate your num-

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subscribing to it
llpv under the indus-

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uu Mr Hetcheon will

^ have nothing to do

“I*- with il “I’m infurj-

., ated by these

31 people who want

_____ to outlaw us. You

" don’t protect

people from telephone sur¬
veys, why faxes?"

He complains dial the FPS
would charge him £1,000 a
year for the privilege of
editing numbers out of his
system. Rather wearily, Tessa
Kelly of the FPS says that it is
a non-profit organisation sim¬
ply frying to cover its costs.
“The trouble is. Mr Hetcheon
doesn't understand or sub¬
scribe to the idea of self¬
regulation. He must be aware
of the danger of legislation
being brought in if the indus¬
try cant regulate itself.”

Until that happens, it seems
that the junk fax in all its
horror is here to stay. The
machine has just whirred into
action again. This time it’s
from an outfit called
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18

Well saved,
Gordon, now
for your goal

The Budget should give us better

services, says Anatole Kaletsky

W hat is Labour for?

What is the point of a
Labour Party which
seems to be following most of
the policies associated for gen¬
erations with the Tories? Is
there any solid intellectual
content behind Tony Blair’s
Cheshire cat smile? Since May
last year, these questions have,
in one form or another, been
on the mind of everybody
interested in politics in Britain.
A week from today, when
Gordon Brown presents new
Labour'S first fully formed
Budget, he will have the best
chance to date to put forward a
coherent answer.

The Budget, and the numer¬
ous detailed social se curity
and public spending reforms
that are likely to follow it. are
seen explicitly by the Chancel¬
lor and his advisers as a
watershed. It is the first great
opportunity to introduce the
world to new Labour's “Third
Way" — a political agenda
designed to overcome the in¬
justices of laisser faire capital¬
ism without succumbing to the
inefficiencies of the socialist
nanny state. It is a chance to
inject die missing polity con¬
tent into Tony Blairs project of
“modernising" the welfare
state.

To start to achieve this. Mr

Brown will have to _

redefine the bound¬
aries of the modem
welfare state.

Broadly speaking,
the welfare state has
developed four dis¬
tinct functions since
the Second World
War. The first three

involve financial re- _

distribution, the
fourth the provision of physi¬
cal services.

The first and most obvious
function of the welfare state is
to redistribute income from
rich to poor, through progres¬
sive taxation and, even more
importantly, through the pro¬
vision of benefits and services.
Secondly, the welfare state
offers social security, especial¬
ly — but not exclusively — to
the relatively poor, against
such unexpected exigencies as
unemployment and sickness.
Thirdly, it pays pensions to the
retired. Although this pay¬
ment is described in most
countries as “social security"
or national “insurance'’, it is
quite different in principle
from the protection offered to
the unemployed. Since grow¬
ing old is the least unpredict¬
able of life's contingencies, the
provision of state pensions is
really an alternative to person¬
al saving, rather than a genu¬
ine insurance or protection
mechanism.

The fourth function of the
welfare state is quite different
It involves government action.
not just benefit cheques — and
it is the function which mainly
creates the "sense of commun¬
ity" which so enthuses Mr
Blair. This fourth function is to
provide social services such as
education and medical care,
which are distributed to citi¬
zens on the basis of physical
need, rather than financial
means. Stretching this last
point a little, one could add
into the welfare state many
other functions of modem
government; policing, nat¬
ional defence, environmental
protection, public transport,
support for the arts and cul¬
ture and soon.

Private
health and
education
would be
redundant

The Chancellor made dear
before the general election that
Labours economic strategy
would not involve much in the
way of income redistribution,
the first function of the tradi¬
tional welfare stale. (However,
the Budget is almost certain to
involve some redistribution,
namely a hefty increase in
employers' national insurance
contributions which, from a
strict economic accounting
standpoint, is not very differ¬
ent from an increase in the top
rate of tax.)

Mr Brown has also stated
that the Budget will keep a
tight grip on public spending,
aiming at public expenditure
totals which do not differ
greatly from those planned by
the Tories. But within these
totals, there could be lag
changes which would justify
the Government's claims to be
pursuing a new political strat¬
egy, far doser to the social
democratic ideals of the wel¬
fare state's founders than to
the laisser faire individualism
of the Tories. The great differ¬
ence between the two parties is
that new Labour politidans
still deeply believe that educa¬
tion. health and many other
public services should contin¬
ue to be provided by the State
and that their financing

_ should be improved

with the aim of
making private
health and educa¬
tion unnecessary
and uncompetitive
in the long run.

These beliefs may
or may not be right,
but at least Mr
Brown is likely to
come up with a
broad Budget strategy that
will allow them to be tested.
The essence of this strategy
will be to try to save some of
the money that now circulates
through the insurance and
savings mechanisms adminis¬
tered by the welfare state and
redirect this into direct ser¬
vices — especially health and
education. Mr Brown and his
advisers believe that extra
money could be found for
education, health and other
core public services by identi¬
fying cash welfare transfers in
the "protective" category
which have outlived their use¬
fulness; for example, because
certain types of unemploy¬
ment and sickness insurance
can now be provided by pri¬
vate insurance markets. But
far larger sums could be made
available in the long term by
shifting funds from the third
category of welfare spending
— the retirement pensions
which involve no real insur¬
ance element and are simply a
substitute for private savings.

I

f this is Mr Brown’s long¬
term strategy, he should
begin to outline it now,
well before the next election.
He must put the emphasis on
what he wants to achieve, and
not just what he wants to save.
He must explain what
Labour’s new welfare state
will do for its citizens and not
just what it will stop doing.
Whether or not this welfare
slate will be sucessfol may be
an open question. But at least
new Labour would have a
vision thar dearly differs from
the soda! Darwinism of Mar¬
garet Thatcher and from the
socialist dream of a cradle to
grave nanny state.

THE TIMES TU ESDAY MARC HJ0J998

Don’t lose

Slaves to the work ethic

Ti

his Government likes work:
not without reason is it
named after it Its members
rise early and burn the lights
late, growing visibly thinner, their
eyes glittering with industriousness.
Every policy demands a nation of
worker-bees; getting off welfare, run¬
ning mini-enterprises at nine years
old, earning while disabled or post¬
natal. building its own pension fund.
One imagines Tony Blair in church,
applauding St Paul — "If any would
not work, neither should he ear —
but starting to fidget and shred
hassocks in frustration when con¬
fronted with Martha and Mary, or
the lilies of the field (who, if you
remember, flatly refused to toil, spin,
or invest in private pensions). This
will not do. Lilies are offmessage.
New Labour, new Work Ethic.

But I want more evidoice that
ministers are really thinking about
work and what it is for. This paper
yesterday carried a letter from 11
eminent signatories in academia,
unions and industry, pointing out the
rapid changes in the nature of
employment: flexibility, insecurity,
outsourcing, downsizing, multi¬
skilling. homeworking, portfolio ca¬
reers, all that. The letter criticises the
Government’s "implicit assumption"
that die future labour market will pay
out enough to support its ideas on
individual self-sufficiency, and calls
for a commission on the subject

1 read the letter and cheered: not
for a royal commission, God preserve
us, but for the raising of what ought
to be a big, open, adventurous
national debate. The future of paid
work affects every other policy-
welfare. youth, the family, equality,
crime, health, environment com¬
munity. Yet while work is undergo¬
ing seismic changes, even the most
radical politidans still talk about it as
if it were 1955. Presumably, they
think this is all we will understand.

We have to widen our understand¬
ing. I have lately been trawling
through reports and predictions from
institutions and academics of every
hue (if you only have time for one
source, try the Royal Society of Aits
pamphlets labelled Redefining
Work). They all agree that die first
Industrial Age is nearly over and that
“the job-shaped job" — full-time,
secure, predictable — is a dinosaur.
By 2020 we will speak of work not
jobs, suppliers not employees, clients
not bosses.

Try some facts. Work is shrinking:
the average hour is now 25 times

We should get off the treadmill and
reward flexible employment schemes

more productive than it was in 1850.
The paid working hours of individ¬
uals have fatten by more than 40 per
cent In dtis century (take the long
view, though, and they have gone up
shockingly — anthropologists say
that hunter-gatherers spent only 15
hours a week working}. In the past
five years, only one third of new jobs
created was full-time. Of the unem¬
ployed who get back into work, only
one in five finds a full-time, perma¬
nent job. The Henley Centre redams
that by 2010 less than half of all jobs
win be full-time, and seffemptoy-
ment will have almost doubled.

Work is chang- •
ing. One in a hun¬
dred — more than
in coal, steel, and
car manufacturing
rolled together — is
employed to answer
the telephone in the
vast new call-cen¬
tres of banks, mail¬
order companies, —

helplines and so
form. These, in turn, are starting to
disperse workers to their homes with
computers and headsets. Ring Direc¬
tory Inquiries and speak to a woman
in a Hebridean croft order a CD
from a television advertisement and
your interlocutor is in Arkansas. (The
CD is well east of Suez.) Ever more of
these workers will be self-employed
— “vendor employees", as surely as
tiie wandering shepherds who stood
with their crooks at hiring-fairs in
Thomas Hardy's day. .

Divisions widen. Fewer and fewer
high-paid, high-stressed people man¬
age this diaspora of workers; already
one in eight managers works more
than 60 hours a week, and 40 per cent
more than 50 hours, not counting
commuting. They frantically spend
money trying to disperse the stress.
While leisure time grew by only 2 per
cent in the Tory years, leisure
spending grew by 150 per cent: think
of all those rushed exotic holidays,
those executive stair-cupboards full of
unused squash kit. Meanwhile, 14
per cent of couples are “no-earner
families" and the poorest 10 per cent
of women part-timers get steadily
poorer. Allowing for inflation, if such
a woman earned £50 in 1979, she now
gets £48 for the same work.

We spend man-hours in wild,
weird ways, reflecting the costs of
rush, traffic and broken communi¬
ties. In the early 1970s only a quarter
of seven-year-olds were accompanied
to school, now only a tenth are not
We spend nine hundred million
hours on school runs; allowing fra
traffic congestion, this costs about DO
billion. The stress of time-poor lives
creates new needs: everybody
“timeshifts" now, whether with e-
ma£L mobile phones or videos and
seven-dayshopping. DidTmention
that the average man sleeps half an
hour less titan in 1960? ....

No mare figures.
The paint is that —
driven by technol¬
ogy sind. economic
logic—the world of

has not). It would have been intoier-
abfy cruel to have kept tiie stigma
alive; but its. demiseleaves govern-.,
ntent neurotically determined to deify ■
the act of earning, in case whole
tranches of society reject the very
idea.' • ; ~ ■;

Tlte other problem is women. If
you reward family work, community r
work, voluntary work, and new
parents who optto have no more titan
a joband-a-quarter between them-,,
you get accused of pushing women
back into the kitchen. It ruted not be
so: with more and more people,
operating mixed careers as “vendor
employees” the oompamonate mar¬
riage could crane of age. Both men
and women — to tiie vast benefit of
children — could reduce tiidr earrt-
ing hours white their femlies are
young. Some-already.do. V.'- 7 '

e must chuck out the
baggage of file first In-'.
dusfiialAge.-ahtf btrikJ ’

• a ~woirk ethic based ohr-

work is changing,
and change brings
.opportunity. Forget
royal commissions: .
ministers should
plunge into radical,

, adventurous, side¬
ways thinking from first principles.
Should we discourage downsizing by
taxing it, or ration working hours by
introducing a payroll tax. so that
employers are inclined to spread 90
hours of work between three 30hour
workers rather than two 45-hour
ones? Beyond that, what is work?
What is useful? Should only earning -
bring respect? Why is it more
worthwhile to ring up and pester
people about double-glazing than to
look after babies properly, or to keep
old relatives out of council care?
Should we be more rigorous in
assessing the hidden oost of the must-
work society, of dual incomes ami
limited parental time, fragmented.'
communities and filthy cities?

There are impediments to creative
thinking: one is our panic over the 1
work ethic. The Government is
terrified that the years of mass
unemployment have killed this off. It
has some reason. As a young reporter
in the 1970s I remember the devastat¬
ed shame of newly unemployed men,
and their fear of being thought
shirkers and spongers. But in areas .
of concentrated, incurable unemploy¬
ment, much of that shame has worn
off (although The FullMonty gave os
poignant uhistration of how much

where we are, aaqdkwharnieeds.doi^gi
Tax and incentives'^should isft
penalise those who teadtusefnl tiyest
.with little ; or no market vaktfc;
Government should be"out- there
praising not jUst-big exporters or
glitzyhigh: achievers, but those who
are irwentiveandilexibte aboutwbrk:.,
companies which offer term-fiftie

ion

Hurd

on the

, fe gracious of The Times to
make mow of toe spawora.rf

toe Man* 6}.

only attracts,-employees wffo swap-
job security for flexibility jarri JeaL
lives, low-status,.workers sucii ££
cteahers who band together-tojdfifir
agOe. responsive contract services on-
their own terms. The GoyeHimini
must at least consider titirveriitik
projects .such . as" local -ereha
trading schemes, designed to br
new peopte into usefulness; it slid
pilot word, worrying ideas cribbed
off the. Website of me Institute for
Social Inventions. : My current^ 1
yourite is * focal “labour taxr wkiEb
everyone hasfo pay. and. those, bit
bdruefitsare deemalto pay, bnfwhich
.{if you have time) yducantdawback,
—or draw to supptaneitiyOtn- benefit
— by doing units, of .weak the
community heeds.

It does not have tb be the way it fe:
overwork and stress for some, idle¬
ness Mid disaffectionfar-otiiersj
children and the weak negketed, the
streets dirty and the schools decrepit
and Useful people laid offiri the name;
of bigger corporate' profits which
mostly go abroad anyway-Tiere is a
great wave of dianfee rdfii^, J ahd tiie
Government should get iqj. an top of
it, and surf.- . -\ .r

t fiu the past -two* centimes we have •;
touched every corner of the fjlqbe, the j
-first country ever, to do so. lt Is house'!
Encouraging our friends and custom- 'j
-!as to fo^et the images and tradi-,'
Ftions which whave inade famous.
Pffce monarchy; theHouses of Pariia- i
merit, cathedrals, country houses and -
tillage churches, pobs and andent 1
' Universities are notto be aiibrushed.
Hjut of titeconsopusness of those with/,
wham we deal We' coaldrrt dbfteven '
Vre tried; and why dm earth should
We "try? Just as tins'Labour Govern¬
ment stands on the shoulders of the.
Thatdjei^Majota^ so the

-British* talent of which we ars proud
...is a development, not.a repudiation. -
the past, - - j

Gagging order

THE godfather of “Cool Britannia" has suggested that he was offered a
gong m return for ceasing his attacks on Tony Blair. Alan McGee,
manager of Oasis and adviser, to Chris Smith, the Culture Secretary, on
“* ““^shy-saps he was told to “quieten down” by Labour after
repeatedly attacking the Welfare to Work scheme. In return, he ventures,
it was mooted that he might receive an honour. So cross does McGee
claim to be-that he has cancelled all meetings with ministers. “Labour are
realising I am a big mouth and I’m
getting quietiy asked to quieten
down. They want you to shut up.

They’re vay subtle about ft. People
get bribed with OBEs, MBEs and
Sir Alan McGees. I don’t want one.

They've got to deal with my
criticisms. They cant stop my
wages.” McGee has been invited to
soirees at No 10 where he chatted to
Blair and gave £50.000 to Labour
for the party's election fund.

But since then the Government
has pointed out that budding liam
Gallaghers should not draw the
dole if they are not seeking a job.

Many of McGee’s pop star friends,
so attuned to the passing noises of
fashion, are also gearing up to kill
off “Cool Britannia” VxNew
Musical Bqjress is to publish a
feature headlined “Betrayed. The
Labour Government’s war on
you." Jarvis Cocker, The Verve,

The Charlatans, and Cerys of
Catatonia (pictured with McGee)
attack what the magazine calls the

“hideously reactionary” adminis¬
tration. McGee admits that he
might be thrown out of Smith’s
task force. But he can hit Labour
where it hurts. “I’m not giving
them any more money,” be says.
Comment, courtesy of the Tories’
Alan Duncan: “Gags for gongs.”

• SIR Peregrine Worsthome , writ¬
er, buffer and one-time holder of
bracing views on immigration, is
teaming up with Darais Howe, the
blade 7V presenter, to marie the
fiftieth anniversary of the arrival
of Caribbean migrants. The duo

will visit Stowe and Brixton, their
respective old stomping grounds,
for a TV programme "/ was very
flattered tharDarcus wanted such
an unlikely companion,” Perry
tells me. "I greatly supported
Enoch Powell at the time of his
'Rivers of Blood ’ speech but have
since changed my views. His proph¬
ecy turned out to be untrue, and 1
now have a black niece."

listening duty in the Saar. His divi¬
sion commander had said to him:
“You will get the first Jerry. Is that
understood?”, and newspapers re¬
ported it as “tire ffrst German casu¬
alty inflicted by the British Expedi¬
tionary Force” But the Imperial
War Museum doubts that Mac-:
kexude drew first blood. “There
were nine brigades in that area.
And there had been a tot of air ac¬
tivity since late 1939.” As fong as it
was a Nazi who bought it first I
don’t suppose it manioc. • ‘

•JACK STRAWS attempt to up¬
hold family values after a tricky
Christmas has caused him a con¬
flict of interest. The Home Secre¬
tary was to chair a meeting of the
ministerial working group on the
famify. due to start at 8am, dash¬
ing mth his school run. Straw, ever
the family man. arrived late.

Shooting star

WHO was the first Tommy to bag
a German in the war?The question
is exercising soldiers as a Military
Cross is to be auctioned. It was
awarded to Brigadier John Alexan¬
der Mackenzie, of Hie Gloucester¬
shire Regiment, in January 1940
for “conspicuous daring and re¬
source” after shooting at a 20-
strong German patrol while on

Better late...

BARONESS Chalker of Wallasey
has been elected an honorary fol¬
low of the college that kicked her
out more than 35 years ago. Queen
Mary and Westfield College, part
of Limdon University apparently,
confirms that the former Foreign
Office Minister “did not complete"
her studies in the early Sixties. A
contemporary recounts: There
used to be a 1030pm curfew at

T. S. Eliot’s widow. Valerie, has been touring the .world's auction - > ;.j
bouses to buy the poet’s letters, and will not give up until sfaeh&s them
alL Admirers have waited for her latest collection (for W23-28jfliir ' ‘
neariya decade. When the first volume appeared in I988.yaterie— ._
Tom’s fanner secretary, who mice sported Bright ydlowbairr- i ;
hoped to “pnblish next year”. “It is a long process,” admits Jhftcrac .*.
Faber. “There arestiU letters oat there When she hears one
have surfaced, sbe doggedly goes after them. We arefr^py towwtf

Westfield, which was then aH-gu!s.
and Iynda would rollin a bit lifter
than that. So she wasr sent down.”
Very naughty, bat tiie college is'
contrite: “Well, you have to make
amends somehow.”

•HELEN BRINTON. the Mtih-
bank-controlled Labour MP, hoe'
performed a serious malfunction.
Her Private Members’ Bui on edr-

■ free pit# sones-hiM

■ .but When her time arrfveetl
sat mute "Nb jrofoe
heardithereforel i
as not Thomt? ruled tiie :

Jmed snr. month? of. wasted cam-
paxgnmg:"Okno.” (Cuer muffled
expletives.). - •;

Jasper Gerard

Blai ris rebranding

launched Cod **^ £g**^
butl am in two minds

ting the conrp&nentj
“ZL, ,w the child before I can
SS Sbe with those bringing it to
:Snt Wm Lfoyd’sa^eon^

Gtovemroenft plan m the »me^ue

(which “reveals a new alFont rano-
to rebrand the rattan.-) sounds

authentic — and horruMe. _

Certainly it is wrong tor a ration to
live shrouded in the pastimtoti a
right to use our energy to present
effectively to the world what is^new
and adventurous in Bnta m- That c
one reason why, as you report i
chose a notable modeni aeagn tor
our new Embassy in Berhn.T?ratis
-why, after I visited Austr alia m 1993,

we set in hand a spec ial pro gramme

thare about modem Br ftmy faltoweri
' last year by a similar effort in New
Zealand. That is why with Chatham
House we organised in Man* 1995 a
s uccess ful conference,- replete with
modem talent on Britain’s gl are in
todays world. After the feverish
debates on Maastricht John Msgor
and 1 were keen to open a serious
debate on how we could best use our
assets in the wider world. It is right
that the Government should carry
this forward, inevitable: that tiiey
should dothe the effort in their new-
speak— and unsurprising that they -
should Hawn to have invented ft. r /
Two words of warning are needed,
if tiie Government tries to appropr¬
iate Britain’s modem achievements ,
for new Labour, it will make abash
of it If the discussion becomes party
/poUtkaL every claim will be matched
by a criticism. Instead* of a. thorns",
there will be a hubbub, and we shall
lose our overseas audience: Already
wp hear voices from tiie. ranks of
artists and designers protea i ng that
they are bans, hfiacked . for the
greater glory of a political party. By
contrast we deliberately invited Rob¬
in Cook to speak at our London
conference .in 1995. Let the : spin- r
doctors swim aboutin therrown froth
if that amuses than; but the Govern-.
meat should not deceive itself. The
effective presentation of Britain, has
' to lastTonger thantfre Government's
prese nt political honeymoon., Talent
in a free country wears nojgarty label "
r - The second wtirtting is against e
i »picJa i oi i ^ ' ll i at thepasnstiteetiemy^
sini^y4oes-not> j
cWaek in %. fXKatgy^.yrtih. »teh->a;i

' T ' et me offer two examples. Omv
v|: .analysis in 1595 pinpointed,
JLJ professionalism as one of Brit-")
ainS main assets?— piofessionaUah ■
m rmmy. fields, some new tifee*
fin anc i a l rervices in a global ecano- T
ray, others traditional like tiie skill of \
our Arnied: Forces. I wonder haw
highly- that skill is rated -by tbe
fashionable think-tanks that guide -
tiie Government:3hqpmay be tempt¬
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THE times TUESDAY mappm jq 1998 :

the strange rebirth

_ 19

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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liberal Democrats are victims of their own

success

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^ almost died at birth.
“E was not enough monty to

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sented m the Commons than at any time

Yet there is stffl a chance that,

-ifl* *** y^. the Liberal Democrats
wil] have ceased to exist

u^ pens ’ ^ ^ not be a sign of
taijure but a symptom of success. For the
Labour Party under Tony Blair has adopted
so many of the lib Deiits’ ideas that the
smaller partners status as an independent
party is looking unnecessary. The party that '
stood alone for constitutional reform has
seen many of its policies enacted. The party
that stood for decentralisation and environ-
is seeing its passions adopted.
What'S left? — or rather, What’S T-efr . once
Gordon Brown agrees to spend more cm *
health and education, as he probably will?

The personal chemistry between Mr Blair
and Paddy Ashdown is impelling the two
leaders down a track that may lead to full
coalition in the next decade. Already a coa¬
lition between the two parties is likely to
happen after the first election for a Scottish
parliament Eventually, the liberal Demo-. :
crats at Westminster might look- like the
CSU in Germany—the junior partner to'the 7
Christian Democrats which reaches re-
gional parts that the CDU cannot •

Some Lib Dem activists, particularly
those fighting old Labour in . municipal
council chambers,. find this idea - very.
difficult to stomach. like the Bennite Left of
the Labour Party, they prefer purity to
power. Some also suffer from a form of
victim mentality: take away the victimhood -
and their identity is lost Yet if the ■
realignment of the Left, so fervently sought
by Liberal leaders for decades, is being

achieved, they cannot cavil that Mr Blair's
party is sharing the spoils.

Mr Ashdcrwn can claim much of the credit
for bringing his party back from the brink.
His bravery in the House of Commons has
turned turn from bring a subject of ridicule
to one. of increasing respect He never lost
his nerve, even when his party came fourth
to the Greens in the 1989 European elections.
-But if he.wants,partnership in power, rather
than dissolution, he cannot afford to let up.

At the next^let^on,^ disaffected ex-Tories
-who are not yet ready to return to the fold
could findit easier to vote Labour than ever
before/Having seen Mr Blair govern in a
moderate, pro-market way. they will-not
easily be deterred by scare stories of
rampant socialism. The lib Dons' two
recognisable policies, constitutional reform
arid higher spending on public services, will
by then have been put into practice. If they
do not do some innovative thinking, they
Mil have little distinctive to offer.

Luridly the solution lies very dose to
home. The Government’s biggest flaw is its
. authoritarian instinct, a form of cheap
activism to which ministers resort when they
cannot spend money. The Lib Dems should
return to their libera] roots. So, for instance,
they should support foxhunting, not because
they approve;of the sport but because they do
not believe in banning pursuits of which
they disapprove. Instead they have dis~
played the opportunism that so annoys-their
opponents: supportinghunting in their rural
seats and opposing if zn their urban seats.

Mr Ashdown has had his best moments
when he has taken stands that were
principled, often unpopular, but right
Supporting British passports for all Hong
Kong residents. was one such moment
Calling for airstrikes in Bosnia was another.
The lib Dem leader needs a new cause.
Protecting the nation's liberties is the noblest
of all and the closest to his party's heart

MODERNISING MONARCHY

A process of reform requires a framework for change

Sixteen years ago Lord St John of Fawsley
wrote in The Tunes that “the monarchy has,
become our only truly popular institution".
The flood of fresh ideas floated by the Way
Ahead Group would suggest that Bucking¬
ham Palace now feels less convinced of that
statement Througfr sdective attribution,, it
has been hinted that the Royal Family is~
considering changes in titles, alteration? to \
the Civil List, a much reduced emphasis on -
formality in the presence of the monarchy
and enhanced public access to palaces. The
Government apparently favours, arid the
Queen is con tem plating, changes totheState .
Openingof Parliament and removing senior
royals from a reformed House of Lords:

There are some who will oppose all of this
as dangerous. They wffi . assert, echoing .
Walter Bagehot that the current court must
not Tet m daylight upon toagiti"—that more
will be destroyed fay embracing the, fashion
of the moment than can be salvaged. This
^ would not appear an'esperialiy helpful or
credible position. The monarchy should
certainly be a symbol of continuity in a
rapidly altering country. That is one of the
strongest arguments for its retention. It
cannot though, be obtivious to_the change
around it It is only by adaptation that the
Crown through foe centuries has survived.

That process requires more than a rapid
procession of initiatives. It needs. structure
and substance; There is merit in some of the
individual ideas that.have emerged. Hqw^
ever, there is also broader amcern about the
principle and purpose behind these efforts;
The use of media leaks rather than Official
announcements has reinforced the sense
that these decisions are somewhat ad.hoc
and lack a core theme or philosophy.

% -There appear to be three different, align¬
ments and agendas: those motivated by
alarm at the decline in support for the mon-_

archy; others specifically concerned for the
standing of the Prince of Wales; and then
that of the Government, which regards re¬
modelling of the monarchy as an element of
its wider modernisation project While there
may be, at times, a coincidence of interest
between them, conflict is also possible. All
sides have awarded influence to opinion
polls and focus groups in recent months and
placed weight cm short-term popularity.

There are, obviously important issues
affecting the Royal Family that require
debate. These iztefrufeprimogemture and the
contmued exclusion of Roman Catholics, the
constitutional relationship between the
: Crown told other parts of foe state and the
links between, the Royal Family and the
Chureh of England. The one fundamental
question that draws all these together
concerns the role of the monarchy in the
modem era:. It remains uncertain what
exactly this. is. It must be more than char¬
itable endeavours. It would do the Prince of
Wales, in particular, little harm openly to
outline tiie options m a set of speeches.

The management of the monarchy has
never been a comfortable task. There have
been periods of intense uncertainty before.
The institution has usually strengthened
itself through association with national
incidents- of vast consequence (such as
empire or war) or events concerned with the
succession itself. The Royal Family cannot
determine such moments but it can prepare
for them; This requires, as it has in ihe past,
frank advice from adroit figures of indepen-
dent authority. A sense of history, propor¬
tion and practicality is essential. It may be
that this is already the central activity of the
Way Ahead Group. The present pattern of
: press leaks, attention paid to polling, and the
• priority placed on a director of commun¬
ications does not give that impression.

GENDER BENDERS

Correct grammar beats politicalcorrectness, even in France

Each of the seven women in the French Gov¬
ernment is in future to be addr^red as
Madame IA Minim. Lionel Jospm has
decreed so in the official Trench Journal m *
order to court International Women's-Day.
And he is their Prime Minister. But lang¬
uage laughs at legislators. trya f J^

ctange their language l^ g^emmwit or-

cuIarTM Jospin and tas J

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■ suchas English, where gender is mercifully
vestigial and recalled only in pronouns,
countries, ships.and vehicles are called “she”
• as wdl as “H” Gender is not a matter of
feminine, stereotypes, for “she" can be used
m anger. Guns, tanks and trucks that refuse
VIp work are-still cursed as feminine.

JIhis question of French gender is bring
debated with .fit passion. The Academic
fran?aise calls the Prime Minister’s decree
“a puerile gesture", and compares him to a
: pasha ; being bullied by his harem. Ms
Segolene Rqyal. Je mmistre in charge of
primaxy'. school education, replies, with
geitoe^rOTOvedthalffieacademicians are
a bunch of sexist linguistic shellbacks..

The pressure to feminise masculine gen-
’ ders maty come from French Canadians,
Belgians mid others, who care more for
political correctness than grammar. English
has a similar problem, with chairwomen
bring addressed absurdly as pieces offumit-
.. ure. Language does evolve, but not for offic¬
ial circulars. In anygender. why not go the
’ whole cochoji and have la Ministresstf Law-
'yers addressed, as Maitresse could give the
wrong impression. If the french are starting
to find gender odd. then it will fade away, as
it has in-English, But the academicians are
right to retard-wdiar tiiey cannot repel and to
palliate what they cannot cure. Even Efcendi
female maScitimeministers have no right (or
power) to alter French grammar.

Public interest in
PM’s ‘leap of faith’

From Sir Richard Storey,

Chairman of Portsmouth and
Sunderland Newspapers

Sir. J cannot believe that Members of
Parliament who. in our democracy.
• offer themselves to us as plenipoten¬
tiaries can legitimately claim any of
their life as private,

Mr Blair personally has much pro¬
claimed his Christianity, and his
spokesman should not cUum that pub¬
lic probing of the Prime -Minister's
religious frith is an “intrusion too far"
[report March 5; see also letters,
March 7j.

Some issues debated by Members
of Parliament .relate directly to the
beliefs of a specific, faith: the Act of
Supremacy refers to the monarch's
own faith; the Church of England is
stiff“established"; in the UK there is a
growing number of those with "East¬
ern faiths"; there are some religious
beliefs that are regarded by the public
with much suspicion: some people
think that some faiths should be res¬
tricted. even proscribed.

No Member of Parliament can legi¬
timately claim immunity from the
electors* inquisitiveness into their per¬
sonal faith, which must play so infiu-
. ential a part in their legislative activi¬
ties on our behalf.

Yours faithfully,

RICHARD STOREY.

, Chairman. Portsmouth and
Sunderland Newspapers.

Buckton House.

39 Abingdon Road, W8 6AH.

Match 6.

From the Chief Press Secretary
to the Prime Minister * •

Sir, I found Matthew Parris's article
On prime ministers and refigion inter¬
esting pjlair’s leap of faith". March
6). However, his description of a
Labour Party press officer seeking to
grin best possible coverage of Tony
Blair at prayer creates a false impres¬
sion. As fixe Prime Minister sees his
faith as an entirely private matter, it is
an impression 1 hope you will allow
me to correct. .

The only occasions on which the
press have attended church with the
Blairs are at the traditional service on
the Sunday of party conference week
(a tradition developed under previous
leaders] and on one occasion close to
die general election, when a huge
press pack turned up at church and
had to be marshalled by a press officer
so ss no: to disturb other churchgoers.

He has also, i; is true, written an
artide for. The Sunday Telegraph
about his frith (April 7.1996). As this
led to him bong falsely accused of be-'
lieving that Conservatism and Chris¬
tianity are incompatible, it is not an
exercise he intends to repeat, despite
file offers that arrive on a regular
basis.

We are also considering whether to
suspend the arrangements under
which the media, at their request, are
allowed access to the pre-conference
service.

Yours sincerely,

ALASTA1R CAMPBELL
Chief Press Secretary to the
Prime Minister.

10 Downing Street, SWIA 2AA
March 6.

From the Reverend Richard Jenkins

Sir, As a Church of England priest I
am found, like Mr Blair, in Roman
Catholic churches praying, and even
attending the celebration of Mass.

Does this mean that I too will con¬
vert to Catholicism, or — in all but out¬
ward show — have already done so?
Or could it be that fixe Prime Minister,
like me, has already been converted to
ecumenism? •

Yours faithfully.

RICHARD JENKINS
(Assistant Ecumenical Officer.

Diocese of Wakefield).

St Paul’s House, Queen’s Drive,
Barnsley, South Yorkshire S75 2QG.

jrichardjQaol.com
March 6.

Balfour’s doubts

From Mr Christopher Montgomery

Sir, Matthew Parris, in his run-
through of the religious allegiances of
recent prime ministers (artide. March
6), suggests that Arthur Balfour “was
reputed to be an atheist", and in so
doing refers to Balfburt book.-A
Defence of Philosophic Doubt.

In as much as we can ever know
something as private and profound as
another man’s religious belief, we can
be reasonably sure that Balfour was a
convinced Christian.

Barbara Tuchman, in 77je Proud
Tower (Macmillan, 1966). corrects
those who may have assumed from
the title of Balfour'S book that he was
.championing agnosticism:

In fact, by expressing doubt of material
reality, the book was paradoxically assert¬
ing the right <0 spiritual faith, a position
more expTuzly stated in his later book. The
Foundations of Belief.

Yours faithfully.

CHRISTOPHER MONTGOMERY,
106 Horseferry Road,

London SWP2EF.

March 6.

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Action needed on Algerian atrocities

From the Director of the VS
Association of Great Britain and
Nonfteni Ireland and the Chief
Executive of the Refugee Council

Sir, The appalling and continuing
atrocities in Algeria require urgent
action by the international commu¬
nity as a follow-up to the European
Union ministerial visit 10 Algiers in
January and the UN SecreiaryKjener-
al*s earlier offer of his good offices in
seeking an end to the violence.

On March lb the United Nations
Commission on Human Rights will
begin its meeting in Geneva. It is
essential that Algeria should appear
on its agenda.

When Lord Avebury questioned
Baroness Symons of Vemham Dean
(Parliamentary Under-Secretary. For¬
eign and Commonwealth Office} in
the House of Lords on February 9. he
informed her that, in a recent conver¬
sation with the Algerian Ambassador,
he had discussed the need for the UN
special rapporteurs on torture and
exira-judidal executions to be invited
by his Government 10 visit Algeria.

The Ambassador replied that this
could only be considered if the Com¬
mission an Human Rights first adopt¬
ed a resolution. He said rhar his Gov¬
ernment would go ro the commission
with a statement, following which it
would be possible to discuss the terms

and conditions of such a visit. In fact,
this is nol correct; since in 1993 his
Government invited such a visit, so
that there is no need for a resolution.
They now appear to be going back on
thar invitation.

There are many precedents for
action being taken by interested
parties actually to prevenr key issues
from ever getting on to the commis¬
sion's agenda- It would, of course, be
infinitely preferable for the rappor¬
teurs 10 visit Algeria before considera¬
tion of the crisis by the commission, so
that the latter could consider their
reports; but. if that is not possible,
then the evidence of other patties can
be called for.

What is essential is that the Al¬
gerian tragedy should be fully dis¬
cussed in the commission and we urge
our Government and all other sym¬
pathetic members of it 10 do every¬
thing possible to ensure that this
happens.

Yours sincerely.

MALCOLM HARPER.

Director.

United Nations Association of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland.

N. HARDWICK.

Chief Executive, Refugee Council.

3 Whitehall Court.

London SWIA 2EL.

March 9.

Chemical mergers

From Mr Edward Collier

Sir. Professor Bryan Reuben usefully
notes in his letter (March 3) thar “mer¬
gers between large pharmaceutical
companies are not always successful".
How right he is — and he will not be
surprised to learn that this is also true
of other industries.

Our own analysis shows that a dis¬
turbing number of mergers and
acquisitions continue to destroy share¬
holder value rather than create it In
fad, in the 1990s in the US'market
only a whisker over half of merged
companies [52 per cent) have out¬
performed the average for their indus¬
try — regardless of their stated stra¬
tegic intent In the 1980s it was even
worse, at just over two out of five.
Moreover, the larger file deal the
worse the track record, with only one
in four of the larger deals providing a
better than average return to their
shareholders.

In this context, perhaps investors in
larger companies should be comfort¬
ed that at least statistically, their
returns have a better than evens
chance of outperforming the sector
average when corporate marriages
dissolve at the altar.

The differentiating factor is dearly

not one of strategy but in the man¬
agement of the process once the ink is
dry.

Yours faithfully,

EDDY COUJER
(Partner).

Mercer Management Consulting,

1 Grosvenor Place. SW1X 7HJ.
edward-collieriBmercermc.com
March 3.

From Mr Caspar Rock

Sir. Professor Reuben fails to mention
the true rationale behind the Glaxo
Wellcome/'SmithKline Beecham mer¬
ger and what he calls the “notorious"
“short-termism" of the City’s enthusi¬
asm for such unions. Hie main driver
of these deals is to merge file sales and
administration functions and cut costs
so that extra cashflow can be rein¬
vested in research and development to
improve future prospects. To call the
Ciba-Geigy/Sandoz merger unsuc¬
cessful at this stage is patently unfair
on the new company, Novartis.

Yours faithfully
CASPAR ROCK
(Director), Framlington
Investment Management,

155 Bishopsgale, EC2M 3XJ.
caspar.rockQframlington.co.uk
March 3.

Service overseas

From MrsJ. Dalcon

Sir, I was interested by the letters you
published on March 4 about the
shortage of volunteers for service
overseas.

Last May. just prior to her final
examinations in marine biology, my
daughter responded to an advertise¬
ment from VSO wanting marine bio¬
logists to work in the Philippines.

I was shocked when some weeks
later she received a curt lener telling
her that she was ineligible on two
counts — that she was too young at 22,
and also that she had not had two
years’ work experience. The fact that
she had done conservation work in
Indonesia during her gap year appar¬
ently counted for nothing.

VSO cannot have its cake and eat it.
It is no use complaining that young
people are not volunteering for work
in the Third World as they used to and
then turning them down, even when
they are well qualified, on the grounds
of lack of age and experience.

My daughter went on to obtain a
good degree.

Yours fairhfollv.

JENNIFER DALTON.

Lavender Cottage,

Church Street,

Rudgwick, West Sussex RH12 3EH.
March?.

From the Director of
Youth for Britain

Sir, In our experience there is no
shortage of young people willing to
volunteer for working overseas. On
the contrary there is a huge reservoir
of idealism and talent that is largely
untapped. The problem that young
people experience is finding a place¬
ment that exactly matches their cir¬
cumstances — tune available, start
date, type and location of voluntary
work, eta

Youth For Britain, established in
1994, has set up a comprehensive com¬
puter database of volunteering oppor¬
tunities for 16 to 25-year-olds. We are
able to match volunteers’ require¬
ments against those of 750 organisa¬
tions offering over 250.000 placements
annually throughout the UK and
worldwide. We are currently aware of
projects in 214 countries.

Individual organisations clearly
cannot be infinitely flexible. However,
it should be possible for potential vol¬
unteers to find an appropriate organi¬
sation from the huge number that
exist — provided that they know of
their existence.

Yours faithfully.

ROGER POTTER.

Director, Youth for Britain.

Higher Orchard, Sandford Orcas.
Sherborne, Dorset DT9 4RP.

March 6.

Mosley and Disraeli

From lady Mosley

Sir. In “I witnessed a Mosley riot"
(feature. March 6). Mr L. W. Bailey's
memory plays him false when he sug¬
gests thar Oswald Mosley “attacked"
Disraeli.

My husband was a great admirer of
Disraeli, and even discussed with the
publisher Hamish Hamilton the idea
of writing a book about him. Unfortu¬
nately. it was never written.

Yours faithfully.

DIANA MOSLEY,

Le Temple de la Gkare,

Orsav, 9)400 France.

Man&6.

No doubt about it

From Mr Michael Haigh

Sir, l was interested to read (report.
March 3) that The finding suggests
thar dyslexia is caused by deftdenr
brain functioning, and is a real
phenonenon, something tiiat has been
doubted."

Yours etc.

M- HAIGH.

Widgeon Wood,

The Chase. Woobum Common,
Buckinghamshire HPI0 0LN.

March 4.

Help for students

From the Minister of State,

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sir. Your report (March 61 on the
effect the Asian economic turmoil is
having on many students from South-
East Asia was timely.

1 have jusr rerumed from the
region. While there. I announced that
the Government has derided lo set
up a sbon-term scholarship scheme to
help Asian students from the coun¬
tries most affected by the turmoil.

This will be aimed at students who
are due to continue courses in the UK
next autumn and new students who
have places for the 1998-99 academic
year.

We are still working up the details,
but our intention is to build on the
very generous schemes many British
universities have already put in place.
We very much hope that the private
sector will also contribute.

We value our relationship with
Asia. It is vitally important for the
UK but also for the students them¬
selves. that we keep up our educa¬
tional links with foe region.

Yours truly,

DEREK FATCHETT.

Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
Whitehall, SWIA2AH.

March 6-

Moon water leads
to flights of fancy

From Sir David Nicholas

Sir. ITN broadcast many hours of live
coverage of American astronauts ex¬
ploring the Moon'S surface during the
Apolh 11 10 Apollo I? missions in
1969-72. Alas fair Burnet was the pre¬
senter and I was die producer.

For one of the moonshots. Dr
George Mueller, former head of
Nasa’s manned spaceflight pro¬
gramme. was a commentator in the
studio. One evening over dinner, he
outlined to us his fantasy of lunar
colonisation. He was convinced there
was bountiful frozen water there (re¬
ports and leading article, March b).
He said that if he could have a budget
equivalent to America's GNP for a
year, he could make the Moon
habitable.

Using nuclear reactors, he would
boil off the water locked in the perma¬
frost to build an atmosphere round
the Moon.

The Moon could be a wonderful
leisure centre. A golfer who can make
a 150 yard tee shot on Earth would
carry 900 yards on the Moon. A high-
jump athlete could dear the equiva¬
lent of a suburban bungalow.

The problem. Dr Mueller said, was
that the man-made atmosphere, an¬
chored only by one sixth of Earth’s
grarity, would eventually spin off.

Yours sincerely,

DAVID NICHOLAS
(Deputy Editor. ITN, 1963-77:

Editor. 1977-89; Chairman, 1989^1},
Lodge Stables.

Kidbrooke Park Road. SE3 0LW.
March S.

From Mrs Elisabeth B. Nicholson

Sir, Your leading article. “Water on
the Moon", suggests “Civilisation
could indeed be transplanted" to the
Moon. Would not the greatest demon¬
stration of civilisation on Earth be a
global agreement to leave the Moon
serene, beautiful and unexploited?

Yours faithfully.

ELIZABETH B. NICHOLSON,

50 Gillhurst Road.

Harbome, Birmingham B17 8PB.
March 6.

From Mr Quentin Morris

Sir, We are told that there is water on
the Moon. How long might it be
before some future Lunar Water
Authority declares a restriction on its
use. due perhaps to the profligacy of
“space age" travellers, or even “a
period of prolonged drought"?

Yours faithfully,

QUENTIN R_ V. MORRIS.

110 Eton Rise.

Eton College Road. NW3 2DD.
qmoms@rcseng.acuk
March 6.

From Mr Kenneth H. Craik

Sir, In light of the discovery of water
on the Moon and the. many proposals
already made for its use, is if too late
to organise a lunar water conserva¬
tion movement?

Yours, etc.

KENNETH H. CRAIK,

70 Great Percy Street, WC1X 9QU.
March 6.

Eating out

From Mr Nicolas Own

Sir, Your leading article today,
"Voucher for a Princess", is quite right
when it says that “ihe country restau¬
rant is one of winter’s treats". How
sad it is then that many country res¬
taurants and inns will be driven out of
business if the draconian new drink¬
driving limits are broughr in.

Amateur gourmets may be able to
drive 10 the restaurant of their choice,
but they will not be able to drink wine
with their meal unless they intend to
stay the night

Yours faithfully,

NICOLAS OWEN,

1 Bruce Grove, Orpington BRb QHF.
n.mven@mcmflil.co 771
March 3.

Dish of the day

From Dr Robin Welle r

Sir. At the annual dinner of the Bristol
Medico-Legal Society on February 27,
153 members and guests were present.
Apart from ten vegetarians, only three
people declined to eat the selected
main course. This was filler of beef —
British beef.

This may be of interest to others
planning menus for formal dinners.
They* can stop ducking the issue, stop
fishing around for alternatives, and
stop chickening out of providing what
most of us enjoy — beef.

1 remain, yours sincerely.

R.M. WELLER (President,

Bristol Medico-Legal Society),

2 Miles Road,

Clifton, Bristol BS823N.

March 3.

Grand fix?

From Mr David Milsted

Sir, In view of the result of the Austra¬
lian Grand Prix (letter. Sport, March
9 J the Government should ban For¬
mula One raring. It is bringing
smoking into disrepute.

Yours,

DAVID MILSTED,

Kesfon, Newbury.

Gillingham. Dorset SP8 4HZ.

March 9.

COURT CIRCULAR

BUCKINGHAM PALACE

.Que en, accompa-
32J» The Prince Edward, this
started the Cm-

2 ™ Gs ?If s from the

forecourt of Buckingham Palace.

Her Majesty later attended ihe
^°™?ivreaWi Day Observance
WVKe in Westminster Abbey and

“ ** Wcsl Gate bJ
n b«an of Wesmtinsrer (the Very
Rwwend Dr Wesley Carr) and ihe
wUunnan, Joint Commonwealth
pwndi (Sir PCter

Marshall).

^ Q“een was present this
evening at a Reoeption given by the
^-onunonweahh Secrete ry-Gen-
«al [His Excellency Chief Emeka
Anyaoku) at Marlborough House.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
March 9: The Prince Edward.
President, die Commonwealth
Carnes Federation, this morning
rawved Mr Michael Fennell
(Chairman). Mr David Dixon
(Honorary Secretary) ami General

Tan Sri Hashim Mohd Ali (Exec¬
utive Chairman, SUKOM 98
Berhad) at Buckingham Palace.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
March 9: The Princess Royal.
President, The Princess Royal
Trust Tor Carers, this morning
attended a meeting of the Board of
Trustees at BT Centre, Newgate
StreeLLondcm EC[.

Her Royal Highness. Colonel-m-
Chief. The Worcestershire and
Sherwood Foresters Regiment
(29th/45ih Foot), this afternoon
received Lieutenant Colonel Pat¬
rick Mercer upon relinquishing
his apfwimmen! as Commanding
Officer and lieutenant Colonel
Robert Jordan upon assuming Ihe
appointment.

ST JAMES'S PALACE
March 9: The Duke of Kent,
Grand Master, die United Grand
Lodge of England, this evening
aitended a Beard of Grand Stew¬
ards Dinner at the Garrick Club.
Garrick Street. London WQ

Royal engagements

The Queen will hold an investiture
at Buddngham Palace at 11.00.
The Duke of Edinburgh, patron,
the Association for School* Sci¬
ence. Engineering and Technol¬
ogy. win present die Young
Engineers National Sponsors'
Certificates at Buckingham Pike
at 10.00. and later, as President of
the Ruyal Commission for the
Exhibition or IB5I. will attend a
dinnertat Armourers' Hall, at 6.-10.
The duke of Kent will attend a
concert in aid of the Prussia Cove
International Music Seminars, at
Courts and Company. Strand.
London WC2. at 655.

School news

The Red Maids: School. Bristol
The Governors of The Red Maids'
School are pleased to announce the
following awards for September

m

ii*

Major Scholarship: Susannah
Hopfclrts. Henleaze Junior School.
Scholarships: AnnabeUe Armstrong-
waiter. Clew House: Jennller
Rossdale. The Red Maids* Junior
School.

Bnrsaxy: Helena Zaba, The Red
Makls* J u n lor Sell ml.

Musk Scholarship: Hannah Johns,
Christchurch Primary School.
Weston-Super-Mare.

Musk Scholarship (hall): Miranda
Robinson. Hopelands School.
Nalbwonh.

14*

Whitson Bursaries (dosed awards):
Cantona Cameron. Ana Samuel.
Hannah Webleys truth.

Royal College
of Physicians
of Edinburgh

The Royal College of Physicians of
Edinburgh has elected to the Fellow¬
ship the following persons of excep¬
tional distinction:

Meeting

Royal Over-Seas League
Mr A.R. Hanbury-Tenisun was the
gucsl speaker at a meeting of the
Discussion Cirde of the Royal Over¬
seas League held last night at Over-
Seas House: St James's. Miss Hazel
Ellis presided.

Colours
turn to
gold for
orchid
exhibitors

By Alan Toogood
HORTICULTURE
CORRESPONDENT

The Royal Horticultural Sod-
cot’s London Orchid show
combined flamboyant dis¬
plays of popular orchids with
a wealth of more specialist
plants from around the worid.
Supported by exhibitors from
as far afield as Australia and
the United States, and from
the Continent, it was a truly
international event

All four gold medals award¬
ed went to colourful displays
of hybrids. Artec Orchids, of
LaurcL Maryland, won gold
for an exhibit of its own
hybrid Moth Orchids (phalae-
nopsis). displayed in gilded
picture frames.

The other gold medals at
the show in Westminster went
to exhibits of cymbidium hy¬
brids. Orchid Answers, of Ai-
modington. West Sussex,
staged a large bank of them.
Particularly eye-catching
were the cultrvars Black
Flame (deep dusty pink). Val¬
ley Splash (pale yellow and
red) and the giant Christmas
Joy with 6 in stems carrying
cream and red flowers.

Ivens Orchids, of Sand-
ridge. Hertfordshire, are
brreders as well as growers of
cymbidioms and their gold
medal display featured recent
achievements — green flow¬
ered seedlings.

The wealth of new cymbidi¬
um hybrids in the gold medal
exhibit from McBean’s Or¬
chids. of Cooksbridge, East
Sussex induded die cultivar
Loch Levin ‘Bertie Wooster'
with flowers in a medley of
pink, orange and brown.

The usual vibrant display
from Vacherot & Lecoufle
Orchids, of Boissy. France,
mduded Laeliocattleva Chit
Chat Tangarine” with sprays
of brilliant orange flowers.

More specialist exhibits in¬
duded miniature spedes
from New Guinea staged by
Equatorial Plants, of Barn¬
yard Castle. Co Durham. The
exhibit from Warrnambool
Orchids, of Victoria. Austra¬
lia, was rich in spedes from
around the world.

Dr Henry Oakdey, of Beck¬
enham. Kent staged part of
the national collection of
Licaste and Angttloa orchids
to show how they grow in the
wild. The Royal Botanic Gar¬
dens. Kew, staged a collection
of European orchids in a
natural setting.

The George Moore medal
for an outstanding slipper
orchid was awarded to Alan
Moon, of the Eric Young
Orchid Foundation. Jersey,
for Phragmipedium
Grouville ‘St Heher'*. The
Westonbirt Orchid medal for
outstanding achievement in
connection with orchids was
awarded to John Blowers, of
Oxted. Surrey.

Birtfcda^

C>r-Vv7f

Prises Edward edebrates his 34m
birthday today. • r -?■ *

Sir Lawrence Aircy. former chair¬
man, Board of Inland Revenue. 72;
Sir-Robert BdUnger. form* presi¬
dent,. National SsvmgsCanraifc
88 ; Air Chief Marshal Sr
Brian Barnett, US Sir Taul -Qm-
don, GcuuniSSiOne^of (Re Metror
pofean Poticr; 51: Mr-fcii
conceit pianist, 64; ,Sr Angus
Fraser, faranerchanrofoj. Board ctf
Customs and Basse.'70s Dame ;
Margate Fry, fonw/dw«maiv
NationaT Union 6 f!’Gcnservatiye
and. Unionist Associ a tions; 67;
Rear-Admiral Sir John Gamier.
64 Sir Samuel GnMniah; aril aer-
vant. 86 ; Mr Hb^i Johnsorvwme
expat. 59*. General ,SirJobn Lear-
mont, 64: MrTaayTeDirani, Chief
GotetaHe HranberntfivS& Lord
Montague of' Oxfiwd. 66 ;.J»ir
Graane Odgere, former ‘chair¬
man; Monopolies and Mergers
Commission, 64; - Sir '-.Michad
Soaker, former dmrinah, l Ntii*- ;
umbrian Wansr. 70; CaptajnMiA-
ad Tbrrens-ajence,. formerjUffd-
Ueutenant ot Armagh. 84:'Mr
Peter WormaJd. former Registrar

11 m itpi

HgMMnH

The Queen startmg the Commonwealth Gaines reh
yesterday. The baton will go to Kuala Lumpur fori

Games there in September.

Observance Service

London,'- - -- --,

pianist and ‘ composer. * Evesham. '•
Rg£. Taras - Shevchenko. -poet,.'
Ukraine,' 1861; Giuseppe Martini,
Italian patrioCPSsa. 1872; Sr Charles
Thomson. .jiatUfoCst. Barrode; Lo- .
. than. 1882;Chades FrederickWortt■;
fashion dsigne. Paris. 1896b David.-]
Beatty. 1st Sad Beatty, Admiral ofthe >
Flea. London, 1936; MM -
Bulgakov, dramatist and ntwefist.
Monfow. . 1940; Latiraace- Binyun.'. ;
poet, Reading. 1943r Jan.M^Sajyk. -
statesma n .- Prague^.- W&Frenk
0*Gbaacr. tikrt storywriter. Dufittv"’.
1966; Xorisfontfn Thntifrikri. 'Gen ¬
eral Secretary of tae.-Spriet,: Cotte- -
rounm P»riyl98+£S. Mattosr.1965.;
The Prince of Wales (tangBWnrd
VP). married p rin ces s ’’A lM a^I ra at :
DennBuk.1863. ' m, ji

tag. adbptti, *. m-

hBridat'lftC'i-v *..- *®

» BOft brau?

The Queen was present at the
Commonwealth Day Observance
Service held yesterday in West¬
minster Abbey.

The Dean of Westminster, theVny
Rev Dr Wesley Carr, officiated. The
Very Rev Adrian Arruwsmith, rep¬
resenting die Cardinal Archbishop of
We s tm in ster, read die lesson.

Chief Emeka Anyaoku. Secretary-
Genera] of the Commonwealth, read
die Queen's 1996 Commonwealth
Day Message. Dr Saiah d-Din M..
Kenawy. Deputy Direct or-General.
Islamic Cultural Centre, read bom
the Qufim, Rabbi Dr John Rayner
read bum thc Mishnah Sanhedrin,
Mr bideijit Singh, representing die
Network o f Sikh Organisations. UK-
read from the Guru Granih Sahib.
Mr Hugh Ada m so n. UK National
Assembly of die Baha’is, read from
The Hidden Words of BaiuTa'Uttk,
the Yen Dr Randith M. Vapnjnana,.
of the London Buddhist VDiara. read
from die Sutta-Nipata. words from
The Discourse on Loving-Kindness.
and the Rev Swami Dayarmananda.
of the Ramakrishna Vedanta Centre,
read from the Universal Prayers.

The Rev Alexander Cairns. Asso¬
ciate Minister, Si Cotumba's Church

of Scotland, and the Rev Dr Kath¬
leen Richardson. Moderator of the
Free Church Federal Council, said
prayers.

The Bays of the Westminster
Abbey . Choir, the BT Mdocfians
Sted. Orchestra, Ms Ruby Turner
and ihe Visual Ministry Choir, Ms
AEce Neary. ceflo. and Mr VJjay-
komar Jagrap. sitar, also took pan.
The flags of the Canmaiwealth
countries were borne in processkm
to the Sacrarium. The Gommdn-
wealth Mace was carried by Mr Jeff
Bast.

The Prime Minister and Mrs
Blair, the Secretary of State for
Ftoreign and Commonwealth Affairs,
the L e ader of HM Opposit ion and
Mrs Hague, the Minister of State for
Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
and the Minister for Spat were
present. The Lea d er of the liberal
Democrats was represented by Mr
Metises Campbell, QC, MP.

The Lord Mayor of Westminster
and the Lord Mayor of London
attended. The Chief Rabbi was
represented by Rabbi Dr Julian
Jacobs. Among others present were:
High Co nun Is* loners and Agents
General and thetr iponses. Mrs
anyaoku. ihe permanent Under-

RMary Qaii of Loads* V

■ TheTord Mayor aFWestiHHistcr Was
ibe. speaker at a Buncheoa of the
Rotary Chib of London hdd yer-
Hsrtiay at the Jforixm Hoed: Mr .
CSfctd Chioles; {tresideat. wafe ta
-foe fhmr.'rv' 1

Dimiers [.

British AroOioa Purees^

ti ming fliA - ..■.*■ • j

GenoralSi^Chades Gutiirie, CStief df'
dieDefeaceStHfLwasdie|Hiiic^al‘
goarattiar215thdinner6ftfieBritidi
American Races Dating Clnb JhJd .

Deputy Oriet^of the
Defence Staff- (Systems), and
Genial. Wffliam S- Hinton. Gont
_mander 3nJUnitBd SnattsAir parcel
were the joint cfaafnnen. -

"MrXLA. RyBr^pedffing
Tffid Mbs KAJJewW •" -
The ^engagemeftt is announced
between Jack, khi .erf Mr and
Mrs Jdm FriKr-Sped*ng, of
Miif^fousei; J&stridi;' Cumfara,
andAllfoil daughter of Mss
David Jesritt. rflow House Bum,
SpatByrooor. O’ Dorhara.

Mr WXHsfefiwoa • 7 .
and Mas J.E. Cross
The "engagement is announced
boween Nicholas,- scat of Mr
kid hlrs John Huichison, of
Akfcfaurgh. Suffolk, and Joanna.
dangh 'tgr hT~Mr and Mrs 'Brian
Grass, ofBuckfast; Devrm.

Mr J.W. Lees ;

aod MksTLE. Straagcr .

TSe engagraKTit is anaonneed
^between Justirc younger son of

Sir: Dasid and Lady Lees, of

Shrewdjury. Shrushire. and
Rachel 'dau^uer rf Mr and Mrs
-Maxwell Stringed of Brisbane.
Au^tttKa. ■ ! -

Mr MJ. Norbnry .
and Miss LE. MaUe
The engagement is announced
between Mart, yoonger son of Mr
and Mrs K_l_ Norbury, of Eaton
Square, London, and Louise,
daughter of. Mr and Mrs D-E.
MeSfe, bfXeatberhead, Surrey.

Mr GJB. Norton .

and Mitt KJ- Cockram

The' engagement is announced

betweai Gary.ekler son cti Mr and

Mrs B. Norton. of Shanklin, Isle of

WigJU, aad KeSy. elder daughter

bf. Mr. and tMrs W. Codcram. of

Mr D. Ramie -
amLMiss MJE-ThwayCes .

engagement is- announced
between' -David,.- .youngest son

’ rsiT. a c, wfit-V'i-i >-W;

of . Corty,' Northampton, and
- Margaret,- ybungesr daughier of
r.Mr and Mrs Lancelot Thwaytes,

[. of Applebym-V\fesmiorland- -

Mr A- SidEvui ;

•: and Miss AJW.C. Doyle. . .

^The engagement is. announced
feweeia Aytiin,‘son of Mrs’T.
.Soffivaii ankf. Mr FL. Dervish, of
-London, and'-AHsoo, daughter of
• Mr- and Mrs Anftony Dqy le; of
.Keidlwoirdi, Warwickshire. -

Mr J. Waffis *. V*‘- ‘

.'■d'Min K Kagsall *v - : - \ : -
The engagement is . annouDoed ,
•Beftveen James.^ ridest son of Mr '
anil Mrs M. -.Wallis, ctf Krtsoe^' -
Bedfordshire, land EmmaTj 7 uise. >•
'only fk»igtiw»r (if Mr and Mia G:

; Gore House;. BaDattitf ^

■GaZf&xa

^Mriut-Wefia'" v ■?

ndMs J^4.AIpte*r
.■fte- tanaaneU -'b announced
1 Utweeii EcWa^Tfemy.ridestscri
rfkti*^M«RkiBidWeiIs) 6 f-
lklfe;WM^MinBterti a e; and
JesskaMary, yodnges- dad^htwof
- Mr ancf Mrs. Jcto Uptan, of
Marfca I>raytoR. Shropshire. .

Latest wills

Ofive Maud Sefl, of Levitan
Buzzard. Bedfordshire, left estate
.valued at £3b172,462 net •'

' She left £l million to Ae Ndgbboaily
QanHtTrust.

Sosannah Mazy Abel Smith, of
London, W2, left estate valued ar
^128276 act •* f /*. '. / *;

Frank Speak, of Cfitherbe, tan-
CAshire, left estfoe- valued at
t 2JB6£Ib'XBX. A •

. Helen shares in hlsresUnmyestaieto
STMarrt chottlL CUtheroe Salvation
RNIO. Church of Enfitind
V society. North Lancashire

---.Homes.' Spastica Society.

Bamanfo's. KNIB.-Matte cork
--NSPCC - and - the

Sir Alan Muff Wbod. FRS. whs the
-speaker ar a talk’^fiiuier Add Iasi
nreht at-tbe-'AtheraeunL-Dr'WA.-
Aflan preaded. '

; - * A1 ‘ i f Wr- 1

jSir Ralph SouthvuuU, of Lmdm
Wl.kftestafevaltrcd at £4Xt&HJ22S

.neL'-j-::. ' 7 . - :.* ■ •; .

v : Maria Bertha Weston Goodman,
1-oL Newport : Isle of. Wight, left
estate TOloed at El.O8S,M0neL
' siw left half her residuary estate to the
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BaOMEV - Ob 6 th March, to
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BOYD-On MtoWltadi«
bcn^M Su^Oade WaklO

BIRTHS

t£E-GBi Tebnzuy 26th 1998,
to SusaaCada WootO aad
Dartk. a dawftiMr, Abigail
8 aaan - UmLrSzstcIiQd.

IGBBC-Ob MaxchSth 1998, to
Ctsadta Oado loumO and
NlSrt.a daao»««. CmdoHa
CMay VtoJot, a elstor tor
FmtxaadHaory.

imBL-Oa March 4th, to
CBloSOnfaButUnlaad
DnUa daughter, Phoebe
CaaatDa. a ahster fOr Fraya

DEATHS

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p3|

CAHUAMA-Oal8U>fah »y
1998, to P»al »ad Gumlrffna

<afe Paa taQ an d Whtt hy

RumCodol

HoCABC-O b Mareh 1st at Tho
PortZand Hospital, to Lynn
Moda (ado Sctdatta) and
John Andrew, a danghxor.
BtadoUao Ann, a atsrer for

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[ MOftB..On Mszch4U)atThS
PoctlaDd Hospital, to
Zlmmore (M Cabot) aad
VMUppak ■ beanUful aon.
Lools,welgUns 335*0-

me -To Jolla (pdm SaJmaaaJ
aad Scon, a boanttmi

afior a W« of Olaosaos to
many yams breroty boon. fidlawad by pxtezm

RunaloorrieoatTlM c remation Famlty flowers

Catholic Omreh, Anon to atthr, hot d onarinm If

Walla, Nonhanta. at 11:30am desired to Tbs Pdaadi of

an Monday 14th Match. Lotos Pattab Chnxcb or

Floweni to JA M Humphrfea, Eathlami Fezdos Waid Fund.

Fsaazal Directors, 32, Albsrt. The YCWMiosax Hospital cJo
Street, Baobory.CnridSDC NsvtUaFanetdSOreles,

ordonatkantoThoBdiiBh WovflloHataa.31 1 M anh

Bsaxt Fousdatton. 8oad.Lotoa.L03 2BZ.

ARSOOrr- Michael PaoL

FAY-Chattas Stewart, MA BO AIIC - Jaatm Bobert MIX,

RnTTfstm. cm 4th March KCflfl.wiMnlf oa 7th

| 1998 at booN after a long Match, holered hatband of

; Ulnem bravely eadorwL Hhahoth. tether of Oalre.

! beloved husband of Aodtey David an d Nfcola.

gwnUhamftimHwdci MchofeoChorrtuNawton
at St Kichaera COiatcb, lUosa o ai vtae. Bocta at 2 pm

C I mile a, Bodes, on Mond a y Senodayl4Ui Match. No

16th March at 12 noon. flowers p lea re .

F amily flo w aretmly beat

dosattons If desired to unnsmv . hiw.

S£S5?5T3fSS»,

tete te iBeo rem reMt re#

Ote peacefully oa tfch
Mmch. aged 04, white
ataytngw&bLtafa

bmo Qtaese boras with great
c ourag e. Dearly loved
hnahead of Judy, lovteg
tether of Stephen, law.

te Posed bye

Psbrsary 21st 1998 in

UCYILUaB'OnlWVy
28 tb at Tho Pmtteod _
HospUa l. to Lay fce^jL.

Igana, a banniBu son. rem

FUaJD-Oa retenmylgth ai

sassasas*

tOOmdam, a stsrer fra
Thoansk

nao-Oa Match 4th at The

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laBdeandAaUB*.

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Tha Ibtttead BoaptesMo

Fiona and Cor, a aoa. HaMe.

a breomr teeftodLM^oaad
ESa.

SMUB—WI-Oa teai l w h
1998, to Ama nda (ate Cook]
Ul Perak, a daoflhrei;
SopUo Loabo,a enter far
TtalSBao.

SHEALY-On Match 5 th, to
yySA, to Ellrebetb (nee
Todd} and Bxfc, a ecm.
SamjaelTOdd. * brother ft»
■wBlimdasia.

pteaoal Daaatldaa,tfdai
ca Tha C ancar JT ore or c h
te i i i j aiflo cJo BWnut

■eh. Monday 16tb March at 2 pm

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aad lovtog tet h st of Audio n, 9 Mortti

teWa aad Lte,H much Pamde. BooShl^

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1998. toSamhlaae &4e

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Kathryn, thoirf&st-boaa-

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aad Tom. a daughter; MoDy
Boa^a BMKte Baznaby.

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Jack. Funeral Service at St
Matthews* Church. Strercos,
Warrington ar 9.45 am an
Friday 13th March.
Domriosm to Warringtea
C oaman t r y Fant a n ia C aia
Foad and Bo beon Street

QAVKS - On March 7th teaaa
Madoc aged 79 of TWvoao,
Cnmull Devoted hee bs n d
eihtddt-FsBsaiaim
Valley C r e matoriu m hodmia
Friday March 13th 11 am. So
, Cowsm. donations to

Injured Jockays Fcnrt c/o K.

Bray. Bridge End.

: BAMnOM.QlaesMm 2 .a 9 ea
86 . o n 5th Mmch 1998

law Geoffrey, much loved
mother of Bruce, Rym end
TeeoMnd dea fly bread by H

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Obituaries

LORD DONALDSON OF KINGSBRIDGE

LEONIE RYSANEK

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bon » w> October 9, 1907.

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that he would develop into a
^long soaajKi, Ms fether was the
Rev S.A. Donaldson, Master of
Magd^ene College. Cambridge,
and hK mother was Lady AlWnS
DOTaldson, daughter of the Ear! of
Buckinghamshire. But the general
strike of 1926 changed his fife. He
joined the Labour Party and re¬
mained a member until 1981 -when,
despainne of his party's chaotic
state, he became one of the first
peers to cross to the Social Demo¬
crats. Though he contemplated
rejoining Labour in later years, his
sense of loyalty kept him with the
the Libera] Democrats and he was
one of their spokesmen for many
years in the House of Lords.

John George Stuart Donaldson
went to Eton and then to Trinity
CoHege, Cambridge,' where he
gained a double first in law and
moral sciences. His first experience
of practical social work came with
the pioneering Pteckham Health'
Centre, in many ways a forerunner
of the National Health Service. The
centre was started largely as a
result of his substantial financial
contribution, and he worked there
for three years.

He joined the Royal Engineers at •
die outset of war and served in
North Africa, Persia, Italy and
North-West Europe before being
demobilised as a lieutenant-colo¬
nel In Naples he met Denis Healey
for the first time. Healey, the beach '
master at Anno, was his staff -
captain and Donaldson described
him as “the first officer I met who .
was more intelligent than I was".

Donaldson had been married in
1935 to Frances Lonsdale, daughter '*
of Frederick Lonsdale, the play-
wright, and at the beginning of the
war. foreseeing what lay ahead. she
bought a form to. feed, among
others, her three children and
herself. When 'Donaldson - was-;

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demobilised, forming, became, his
main interest. The two farmed in
Gloucesterdiire and eventuaSy in
Buckinghamshire at Kings bridge,
from which he took his title: It was
not all work, however. The
Donaldsons were' generous hosts
and leading labour figures, includ¬
ing Gaitskell and Grosland, were
regular visitors. .

His social conscience concentrat¬
ed for a time on penal affairs and
from 1966 to 1974 hewas chairman
of the National Association for the
Care and Resettlement of Offend¬
ers. He had earlier been honorary
secrmryoftirel^schargBdBrison-
ers’Aid Society and on the Board of
Visitors at GrendTO Prison. "When
he was summoned to. No JO to...

become a member of the Wilson
Government in >974, the message
had- to be 'salt to Wormwood
Scrubs where he was visiting a
notorious homosexual prisoner. It
was activities of this kind which
prompted Evelyn Waugh, a near
neighbour in Gloucestershire and
r not, a man noted for his love of the
human species, to describe
Donaldson in his diaries as a sunt
— a description which Donaldson
said he spent the rest of his life
trying to live down.

. Donaldson, who had been made
a reluctant peer in 1967, was offered
by Wilson a post either in the
Northern Ireland Office or at
Consumer Affairs. Donaldson
chose Northern Ireland as less

boring. Subsequent events proved
his derision well-founded He did
• not came mto his own ministerially
until Callaghan, a fellow farmer.

\ made him Arts Minister. He was
named as Minister of State ax the
Department of Education to talce :
on this post, a sign of its increased
standing, as Hugh Jenkins, to
predecessor, had been merely an
Under-Secretary.

Donaldson, though hampered by
Whitehall’s usual lack of money,
performed manfully on behalf of
the arts. Museums, in particular,
benefited from his activities. He
had previous experience of arts
administration as a director of the
Royal Opera House and of Sadlers
Wells. Music had always been bis
great passion. When his mother
bought him a house in Sloane
Street before die war he used it for a
time to house a suing quartet He
was the founder of die Quartet
Society and was a rxaa We patron of
what was then called modern
architecture. He commissioned
Walter Gropius to build The Wood 1
House at Shipboume and John i
Winter to build another house in i
Sussex.

The death of his wife, Frances, in
1994, was a blow from which he
never recovered completely, though
he continued to attend the House of
Lords until die end of last year.
Their partnership, between two
strong personalines, was always
one of equality. She it was who
introduced him to forming, and the
first book of her considerable
literary career was in fact on
wartime agriculture. She grew up
accompanying her playwright
father in an exciting progress
through prewar London and New
York social life. From her experi¬
ences came her most successful
book. Child of the Twenties. Her
later books included Freddie, the
biography of her father, Edward
VJU, which wot her the Wolfoon
Prize (and formed the basis of a
successful television series); and
Evelyn Waugh: Portrait of a Coun¬
try Neighbour.

Donaldson had been appointed
OBE in 1943 for his war service in
Italy. His many offices included
those of president of the Royal
Society for the Protection of Birds,
chairman erf the Consumers’ Coun¬
cil and director of the British Sugar
Corporation.

He fa survived by his son and two
daughters.

Leonie Rysanek, Austrian
soprano, died in Vienna on
March 7 aged 71. She was
bora on November K1926.

LEONIE RYSANEK's operatic
career was long, spanning nearly
fifty years. Her retirement was all
too short. In 1996. when she was
approaching 70. she embarked on
her round of farewells to her
favourite houses, starting with the
Met in New York, where she first
appeared in 1959. There she said
goodbye with xhe small role of the
Countess in Tchaikovsky's The
Queen of Spades to an adoring
public. Salzburg beard her for the
last rime as ~ Klytemnestra in
Elektra. Later Vienna, dry of her
birth, upbringing and of her death,
put on an evening in her honour at
the State Opera, a rare privilege.

In her late fifties Rysanek had
considered giving up singing and
passing on the heavyweight roles in
Wagner and Richard Strauss, for
which she was justly renowned, to
other hands arid voices. It was an
invitation from the Australian Op¬
era to play the Kostebucka in
Janaoek’s Jenufa which made her
change her mind. Ir was a success
and persuaded her to rebuild a
career as a mezzo specialising in
. wicked old women. The Kabanicha
in Jan&ek's Katya Kabanova fol¬
lowed, as did Heredias in Strauss’S
Salome — nor so old perhaps but
certainly not short of depravity. It
was a for ay from the glamorous
heroines of Rysanek“s youth, but
these half-crones kept her on stage,
and the stage was where she had
ahvays belonged.

She made' some outstanding
records, notably with Karajan, but
never much cared for the studios,
claiming almost to despise them.
However, she did authorise a few
years ago the re-release of a
number of Italian arias recorded in
the late 1950s. She believed that she
needed the theatre to show off her
poise, her good looks and most of
all the sheer intensity of her
performance. She could easily have
been a straight actress, but opera
claimed her when she was a child.

Her father, a stonemason of
modest means, took her to a
performance of Fidelia when she
was eight and the experience
proved unforgettable. She went to
the Vienna Conservatoire during
the war years, where she studied
with Alfred Jerger. the first
Mandryka in Strauss’s Arabella.

She made her debut in 1949 in
Innsbruck as Agathe in Weber’s
Freischutz. The voice was clearly
already opulent enough for this
heavyweight role. She had a spell
with the Saarbrucken Opera before
in 1951 landing the part of Sieglinde
in Die Wallace in the first postwar
Bayreuth Festival. The choice was
made by Wieland Wagner, who
had a penchant for sopranos who
looked good and could act as well
as sing.

It established Rysanek as a
Wagnerian of high quality and led
to a number of farther Bayreuth
appearances, including Senta in
Der fUegende Hotldnder, the role
with which she made her American
debut, in. San Francisco, in 1956.

Bv that time she was already
attached to the Bavarian State
Opera and then the Vienna State
Opera, both of which developed
her as a Strauss singer. It is for
Strauss and especially his middle
and late operas — Die agyptische
Helena, Frau ohne Schauen and
Die Liebe der Danae — for which
she will be best remembered.
London first heard her in 1953
when the Munich company came
to Covent Garden in 1953 with a
trio of then little-known Strauss
works. Rysanek was given die title
role in Danae, although she was
not allowed to ring it on the first
night However, she made a big
enough impression in two later
performances for the Royal Opera
to engage her for Chrysothemis in
Elektra the next year and for
Sieglinde the one after that. She
returned as Elsa in Lohengrin and

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BRIGADIER E. D. SMITH

Brigadier E. D. Smith,
CBE. DSG. Gnrkha -
commander, died on
March 7 aged 74. He was
born on AngnstW, 1923,

AMONG his Gurkha soldiers
the name of “Birdie- Smith
was synonymous with, cour¬
age. As a 21-year-oid company
commander of 2nd Battalion
7th Gurkha Rifles he -was ‘
awarded an immediate DSO
for gallantry, during: .fee
Eighth Army*; offensive; rip
Italy's Adriatic coast in Sep-,
t ember 1944. The citation sug¬
gests that he must have
missed the Victoria Cross by
the narrowest margin.

Linder Held Marshal Kes-
sdring’s skilful leadership.the
German Armycomested every
village and river line in order
to dday the Allies'advance on
Central Europe from - the
south. On the night of Septem¬
ber H T9tt the 2nd/7th
Gurkhas were ordered to take
the village of Tavolefo, which
had beerr fortified to the last
house, and -ban*. -Smith's C
Company'was given the task
arid, despite a vicious spoiling
attack by the many two hours
earlier, : he crossed the .start
line on time at midnight
Almost at once.' his leading
platoons were halted, by ; in¬
tense Spandan machtnegun

fire from die village. Smith
.rallied and led them forward
to destroy the first Sjpandau
post by throwing in grenades
and tilling off its ^occupants
with his Thompson sub-
madunegun, Hewas wound¬
ed in the leg and his company
suffered 35 men lolled, or
wounded before they re ac hed
the outskirts of the village.

- -Two hours of hand-to-hand
fighting ensued, with Smith
leading the attack .to each
; house and barn, tilling many
of fiie enemy himsdf by hurl¬
ing grenades through the win¬
dows and. into the.-German
trenches. Ignoring his wound,
he ; allowed the enemy no

respite and by 0400 hours on
September 4 he was able to
gather the still-standing rem¬
nants of C Company, dear the
.last group of buildi n g s and
report the village in his hands.
The Germans retaliated at
once with mortar fire but.
anticipating a counterattack.
Smith deployed his 2S remain-'
ing -men with such tactical
still that they were able to
hold their ground until the
rest of the battafion reached
than at midday oo September
4 on their way to the final
objective.

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ity with the Gurkha soldier
whose sobriquet ” Bravest of

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enged. When Indian Petition
came in 1947. six regiments of
Gurkha Rifles became part of
fire Indian Army and four
transferred to British service.
Initially, the latter group faced
bewildering change and the
flow of recruits through ener¬
vating transit camps, en route
for Malaya, began to falter.
Smith was selected to form a
new camp in Calcutta and
then command one in Sings*-.
pore. His example and leader¬
ship restored confidence and
recruit levels quickly regained
their traditionally high level
Eric David Smith was bom
ax Cupar, Fife, and educated at
All Hallows School. With no
intention of becoming a pro¬
fessional soldier, he enlisted
during the war and was
selected for the Officers’ Train¬
ing School, Bangalore, from
where he was commissioned
into the 7zh Gurkha Rifles in
October 1942. His restless
stance and beaky nose earned
him file nickname Birdman
which, shortened to Birdie,
remained with him for life.
After service in Italy, he went
to Greece in 1945, where
2nd Hth Gurkhas formed pan
of the Allied foroe sent to
support the Athens Govern¬
ment in the civil war which
broke out following the Ger¬
man witbdrawal-
He then served with his
regiment in the Malaya Emer¬
gency, for which he was
appointed MBE in 1952. Staff
CoUege and various staff ap¬
pointments foUowed. One staff
appointment was outside the
traditional Gurkha postwar
environment — in Cyprus,
during the Eoka insurrection
in fiie late 1950s.

The Indonesian confronta¬
tion with the enlarged Federa-

Sznith, left, with Major-General Pat Crawford who, as
a young MO, had amputated his arm in Borneo in 1964

don of Malaysia of 1963-66
found Smith serving as
Second-in-Command of
2nd/7fii Gurkhas but already
nominated to command
lst/2nd Gurkhas Rifles. In his
last mission with the battalion
he knew so well, he set out by
helicopter from Sibu on the.
upper Rajang River to visit a
forward company, together
with the battalion medical
officer. Captain Pat Crawford,
and six riflemen.

The engine stalled on
approach to the hilltop land¬
ing rite, plunging the helicop¬
ter and its occupants in a
series of somersaults onto its
back at the jungle edge. The
accompanying Gurkhas
scrambled dear unhurt, but
Smith was trapped by his arm
in the wreckage amid file

stench of leaking oil from the
overheated engine.

Having ordered the rifle¬
men to stand clear in case of
fire. Crawford and Major
Douglas Moore, die local
company commander,
crawled to where Smith hung
by his crushed arm. Diagnosis
that amputation was the only
chance took Crawford only
seconds but the operation,
using a claspknife sharpened
on a stone and without anaes¬
thetic. took almost an hour.
While Moore struggled to
support the two men in the
upturned and tilted fuselage,
Crawford improvised a tour¬
niquet and severed the arm.

Smith had remained con¬
scious and silent throughout.
In his book Wars Bring Scars
he wrote of the incident. “I

also as an imperious Tusca. But the
Garden was never really her
house, and she was not heard there
after 1963.

At the Met, though, she was
queen. In 1959 she made an
unexpected debut as Lady Macbeth
in the house's first staging of
Verdi’s opera. Rudolf Bing, the
general adminstrator. had set a
good deal of store by the product
tion. which at the rime was the
most expensive the house had ever
mounted. The casting was to
match: Leonard Warren in the title
role. Jerome Hines as Banquo,
Bergonzi as Macduff and Callas as
Lady Macbeth. Shortly before the
first night Bing had a double blow:
Callas stormed out: and the con¬
ductor, Dimitri Mitropoulos, had a
heart attack. Bing fumed ro the
young Austrian, whom he had
already engaged for Don Carlo, to
help him out of the soprano
difficulty, and he devised one of his
typical stratagems to help her on
her way.

He employed a claqueur to shout
“Brava Callas" on Lady Macbeth's
first entry, as far from Rysanek‘s
earshot as possible fait loudly
enough to spur the audience into
support for toe replacement under¬
dog. It worked, and Rysanek got an
ovation. But then she might well
have got one anyway. Few liked the
production, bur Rysanek was es¬
tablished in New York.

Her 25th anniversary with the
house, to which she returned
season after season, was celebrated
with a gala concert in 1984. It was
at the Met that she sang many of
her major Italian roles, including
Elisabetta in Don Carlo and
Abigaille in Nabucco.

In Vienna she was also known
for the breadth of her repertory and
did not disdain going up to the
Volksoper. for an appearance in
Lehar's Merry Widow. She knew'
what she wanted and was ready to
stand up to the most autocratic of
conductors, including Karajan: she
rejected all his blandishments to do
Salome for him. Even B5hm. who
taught her much about Strauss,
consented to be contradicted.
Rysanek at her peak had a voice
that reached up to the stars — and
she knew she was one of them.

She was married first to Rudolf
Grossman, one of her singing
teachers and with whom she ap¬
peared on stage a number of times.
After divorce she married Ernst
Gausman in 196S.

sensed that the Gurkha sol¬
diers of B Company were now
grouped around the wreckage.
Bravest of the brave, how
often had I seen their courage
when wounded in battle. Now
I had to try to live up to their
standards, to show that I was
worthy to be one of their
officers." Captain Pat
Crawford was awarded the
George Medal for his cool
gallantly in file smouldering
wreck and his professional
skill, which saved Smith's life.

After recovery from this
appalling experience, the one-
armed Birdie Smith com¬
manded lst/2nd Gurkhas in
Borneo until the end of con¬
frontation in 1966. and then in
Brunei and Hong Kong. Pro¬
moted colonel, he served wiih
the Defence Intelligence Staff
in London until, to his own
and his many friends’ delight
he was appointed brigadier
commanding the Gurkha re¬
cruiting bases in Nepal. For
this service he was appointed
CBE shortiy before he retired
from the Arniy in 1978.

On retirement, he returned
to Devon, where his parents
had lived before and during
the Second World War. He
became bursar and then chair¬
man of governors of St John's
School, Sidmouth. He was
also chairman of Sidmouth
Town Council and president
of the local branch of the Royal
British Legion. He wrote sev¬
eral books about his beloved
Gurkha riflemen and their
campaigns post-1939, and
served as Colonel of 7th Gur¬
kha Rifles fron 1975 to 1982.

He had married, in 1957. Jill
Waycort, daughter of Briga¬
dier Jack Waycort. Jaie Royal
Artillery. His wife survives
him, together with their two
daughters.

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Violence erupted on the streets of BrixttHL
south London, last night, when the main
threat of poll tax unresi seemed to have been
averted.

. Running battles broke oet between police
and protesters whose ranks were swelled by
local jooths after a crowd rf 2,000 people had
disposed from outside the tmmhalL
Is the hours leading up to die violence, the
crowd had appeared good natured. Police
were hopeful of avoiding the violence and
looting seen in Hackney orz Thursday.
6-0CpHE A crowd of about too gathers- outside
Lambethtcnm ball with chants of. "Break the law
not die poor* and swefls in Sitt. Starting to spin
out of A» e .Lane.

7 , toper The crowd Wocks Aar Lane hut police;
maintaining x low-key presence, do rex interfere.
755pm: Speakers Start dddrcssmg the cheering
crowd as an effigy of Mrs Margaret Thatcher Is
burnt. :

930pm: The-crowd starts tu march down Acre

ON THIS DAY

March 10,1990

"Community charge" was the name given to
the tax levied per'head of population, but it
soon become popularly known as the poll tax.
Riots and a campaign of non-payment
prompted the Government to introduce the
council toxin J993

Lane soli in a festive mood. Mice try to keep
item dear of the iruun A23 Brixicm Road.
9.25pm: Some of the mob moves down Sfockwdl
Road, throwing missile at the police.

9.40pm: Dcnunstniiors arrive in Srcdcweil
Great, near lheSiodcwdi ftu* Estate. Their path
is barred by riot palke with two vans. A motorist
tries to drive through the baric erf the crowd, a
manoeuvre which senior aflktas say sparked
clashes. Broken paving stones, bricks, bonks and
wooden staves are huned at the polkr line.
955pm: Youths from the estate hurl stones from a
fins-floor balcony. Riot police charge to disperse
the crowd, a detachment goes into the block to

restore order. Over the neat to minutes running
skirmishes cainnucd.

Mr MacFlynn Mulligan, aged 19. from
Brixlan. was at the from of the crowd. He
said: "We were just out to protest against the
poll tax. But it seemed Militant and miners
got involved. When they saw the policy the
mob went mad."

Moments earlier, youths had surrounded a
police Metro car and initially trapped two
officers. According to one witness, two youths
jumped on to the bonnet and started lucking
the windscreen.

The mob grew and began thrusting staves
through fiie smashed windscreen. The two
officers were dragged clear from The wreck of
the car.

9.55pm: Fresh violence erupts in Brixian High
Street henteen police and aanonsinuws. folk?
in riot year rush the crowds after a line of about
20 police horses in pelted with bottles and other
missiles. Dozens of demonstrators filtered dawn
neighbuuring streets and dashes spread.
1050pm-- folks charge tie demonstrators
occupying the steps of the town hall and make
several arrests There are stiii crowds on
Bruton Hill and police snatch squads make
forays into the fragmented crowd. Slones arc
thrown from near Si Matthew* Church. Dozens
of police charge into the churchyard and arrest
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Regina v Eren

Before Lord Justice Mantetl. Mrs
Justice Ebswurtft and Judge Mar¬
tin Stephens QC
[Judgment March 6|

A person who acquired anorfiert
unexpired tideet and sold it on
could be guilty of theft.

The Com of Appeal Criminal
Division, so held in dismissing
appeals by Adrian John Marshall
Robert Peter Coombes and Brrol
Eren against their convictions in
March 1997 at Southwark Crown
Court (Judge Hardy) on pleas of
guilty to theft and attempted theft.
Marshall and Coombes were put
on probation for two years and
Eren was ordered to serve 40
hours community service.

Section 6 of the Theft Act 1968
provides:

“(1) A person appropriating
property belonging to another
without meaning die other perma¬
nently to lose the thing itself is
nevertheless to be regarded as
having the intention of perma¬
nently depriving the other of it if
his intention is to treat the thing as
his own to dispose of regardless of
the other’s rights: and a borrowing
or lending of it may amount to so
creating it if. but only if, the
borrowing or lending is for a

period and in circumstances mak¬
ing it equivalent to an outright
taking or disposal."

Mr Nigel Taylor, assigned by
the Registrar of Criminal Appeals,
for Marshall and Coombes; Mr
Jonathan D. Simpson, assigned by

for Era; Mr Roger Smart for the
Crown.

LORD JUSTICE MANTELL.
giving the reserved judgment of
the court, said that the appeal
could have implications for all
ticket touts and even for ordinary
motorists who passed on the
benefit of an unexpired parking
ticket.

These three appellants had been
video-recorded obtaining Under¬
ground tickets or Traveteards,
from member; of the public who
had passed through the tided:
barriers and selling them to poten¬
tial customers of London

Underground.

The appellants accepted that by
doing so they each committed a
bylaw offence bat they were sepa¬
rately indicted for theft to which
they pleaded guilty after the judge
ruled chat all the components of
theft were present save for the
question erf dishonesty which was a
matter for the jury.

On appeal it was argued that on
the agreed facts there was no

evidence of an intention perma¬
nently to deprive. The judge had
taken the view that the provisions

of section 6(1) of the TTieft Act 1968
covered die position and their
Lordships, having considered R v
Fernandez 019961 1 Cr App R17^,
agreed that by acquiring and re¬
selling the tickets the appellants
bad an intention to treat the tickets
as their own to dispose of regard¬
less of London Underground's
rights.

The appellants also argued that
the issuing of a tideet was analo¬
gous to the drawing of a Cheque in
that in each instance a chose in
action was created which in the
first case belonged to the customer
and in the second to the payee.

So. by parity of reasoning with
that advanced by Lord Goff of
Gikvefey in X v Pnddy J1996| AC
815), the property belonged to the
customer and not London Under¬
ground and there could have beat
no intention an the part of the
appellants to deprive London
Underground of the ticket which
would in doe course have been
returned to the possession of
London Underground.

Attractive though the sub¬
mission appeared at first blush
their Lordships did not think, that
it coukJ possibly be correct.

On the Issuing of an Under¬

ground tideet a contract was
created between London Under*
ground and the purchaser, under
which each party had rights and
obligations, theoretically enforce¬
able by action.

Therefore it was arguable, Ihdi
Lordships supposed, that by the
transaction each party had ac¬
quired a chose in action, repre¬
sented on the purchasers side by
the right to travel on the Under¬
ground system and on London
Underground’s side by the right to
insist that the tidoet was osed by no
cne other than the purchaser.

It was that right which was
disregarded when the ticket was
acquired by the appellants and
sold on. But here the charges were
in relation to the tickets and

Travekards themselves which
were jmw dioses in action.

The fact that the ticket or
Ttavekaud might fired its way bade
into the possession of London
Underground, albeit with its
usefulness exhausted, was nothing
to the point Section 6(1} prevailed
for the reasons given.

The appellants having acknowl¬
edged by their pleas that they were
acting dishonestly there was no
reason to consider the convictions
unsafe.

Solicitors: Crown Prosecution
Service. Horseftny Road.

Amending information out of time

Cnnnmfl County Care lid v
Brrgbtrpan and Others
Before Mr Justice Morison, Mr E.
Hammond and A- E. Maimers
pudgmottftbnxaiyZT] -■

When partiy allowing an appeal,
from a decision of an industrial
tribunal in a case concerning care
workers dismissed following a
transfer of an undertaking!. , fhe
Employment Appeal Tribunal
highlighted the problems ofthe
practical applkatioii of the Court
of Appeal derisions in Wilson v St
Helens Borough Council and
Meade v British Fuels Ltd {The
TlmeskdyU}, 1997),

There it was held that where an
employee was dismissed by a
transferor for a reason connected
with the transfer within the mean¬
ing of regulation 8(1) of cbe Trans¬
fer of Undertakings (Protection of
Employment) Regulations (SI J981
No 1794) and was taken on by the
transferee on less favourable
terms, foe dismissal was a nullity
and the employee was employed
under foe terms of the original
contract.

The appeal tribunal upheld the
industrial tribunal's decision that
staff in county council care homes
who transferred to a company
created by die council but with
independent stains were unfairly
dismissed when die company dis¬
missed them and offered them re¬
engagement on less favourable
terms but hdd that it was unreal to
hold that the staff were employed
on the terms of their original

it was common ground that the
transaction constituted a transfer
of an undertaking-. After un¬
successful attempts 10 renegotiate
- forms titeocBnp^ dismissed
-staff and offered them reengage-,
roent on less favour able tenns and
conditions.

.. Theemidt^waccqited.theiJiew

■terms under protest 'and .brought
proceedings in an industrial tri¬
bunal claiming a declaration that
' they were still entitled to enjoy .
their old terms and conditions and
seeking compensation for unfair
dismissal.

The applications had came on
for hearing before Wilson and
Meade had been heard by the
Court of Appeal but after foe
appeal tribunal’s judgments. The
industrial tribunal had decided
that the dismissals were unfair
under regulation 8(1} and foal foe
employees were entitled to con¬
tinue under (heir original terms
and conditions. .

The appeal- tribuaj had con¬
cluded foal the tribunal's decision
that there had been a dismissal
which was unfair and yet the old.'
contractual terms had still contin-
' ued was not logically sustainable

Although the appeal tribunal -
were bound by the derision in
Wilson and Meade it was the view
of the very experienced lay. mem-.

. here and of his Lordship that the
Court of Appeal's derision would
produce uncertainly for employees

and employers .on the grownd- It
was the appeal tribunals duty !u

spell out those difficult^-'.
Adisiftissal whkft wasrendered

■ . « 1 i '■ 1 L_ J — Lui

regarded as a nullity; but if the
reason for the dismissal fell within
regulation .8(2), where: .aft; 6 ®;
manic, tedrnical or-organisational

reasm eotaiEhg changes in-the
workforce was the reason.for.the -
transfer, the dismissal would be;
effective." . ... :• -

Jr was likely to be foe case that
foe employees would simply, itot
know whether foe employee had a
good case under regtdatioif8(Z)- If
foe dismissal was a ftqUity. die.
employees remained employed
and couki not comitiain of unfair

dinrissaL . - i.

- been dismissed m connection with
a transfer would be required to

allege that their, axipfayer, foe

transferee, had made an unlawful
• deduction: (non-payment) -. -front
their wages. ' -

The transferee would titendaim
that foe .employees -had-, been,
dismissed and if the employees.
tb«m responded that ihdr dismiss¬
als were unfair, they wauld have
accepted their dismissal and
turned what vires ^otherwise an

- ineffective dismissal jmfo. one
whfch took effect. V :

The concept of a dismissal which
was a nullity seemed to foe appeal

tribunal to fa** tutsafogeft*?

practical consequences. The ap¬
peal tribunal aho questional

whether in foe Kgfo
meat of foe House of LOW
Ulster v Forth Oty D^rk o,.d
Engineering Co Ud [Jj¥;■

546 ) foe concept bad any piace m

English law.

. The industrial tribunal’s; ap-
' pro^ to the factual B5»«r. "wnaj
was the reason for foe dismissal.

. -could not be faulted. The quesaon
foen .arose as to foe effect of the
dismissal.

.' Having regard. 10 foe fact fo 3 j
\ foe Court of Appeal in Wilson and

• Meade apparently rewgrosed that
a dismissal falling within reguto-

tion 8 ( 1 } rai^it become effetah e il

accepted . by the employees, »

- seemed unreal to. conclude that,
fiix pi ip having continued to work
. far foe company onfoe new terms.

the employees were still employ ed
•! on foe o!4 on es. . ...

. If dxey had been dismissed and
re-empfoyed as was-foe reaKiy in

• foe present case,: tfaty should
awarded compensation for unfair

.' dismissal deemed io have been
. •; unfair by Virtue pf : reguIation S(Ii.

The compensation" won id repre-
. sent a once and for all payment
- ! which bought out foe entitlement
to the enhanced but uneconomic
~ terms-which they bad fwrevkmsh
' enjoyed. . .

Sphcftora: Stephens & Scown.
Exeter. Mr Adam Creme.

Time limit not observed

Regina v Scunthorpe Jus¬
tices, Ex parte M and
Another

Before Lord Bingham of CornhUl.
Lord Chief Justice and Mr Justice
Dyson

{Judgment February 24]

Where an information was laid
within the appropriate time limit
justices might, after the expiry of
that limit, amend the information
to charge a different offence, where
(i) foe proposed amendment arose
out of the same or substantially the
same tacts as gave rise to the
original offence and (0) the in¬
terests of justice favoured the
amendment.

The Queen's Bench Divisional
Court so hdd allowing applica¬
tions for judicial review hy M and
G of the refusal by the Scunthorpe
Justices to amend informations
charging them with robbery to
charges of theft and common
assault.

The complainant, a girl of 15,
alleged that the applicants, aged U
and 15. had assaulted her. removed
her trainers and thrown them into
a bush. The applicants were
charged with robbery, but sub¬
sequently the Crown Prosecution
Service agreed to accept pleas of
guilty to theft and common
assault.

The justices granted an applica¬

tion to amend the information to
allege theft but, cm foe clerk's
objection, refused to allow an
amendment to charge common
assault.

Mr Christopher Kessling for the
applicants.

M R JUSTICE DYSON said that
the clerk's objection, accepted by
foe justices, was based on the
following:

1 Common assault was a summary
offence.

2 A magistrates' court could not try
a summary offence unless foe
information charging it was laid
within six months of commission
of foe alleged offence see section
127(1) of the Magistrates' Courts
Act 1980.

3> The six-month period had here
elapsed and

4 There was no longer power to
amend to allege common assault.

fils Lordship referred to R v
Newcastle upon Tyne Justices, Ex
pc ’teJohn Bryce (Contractors) Ud
51976] l WLR 517) and Simpson v
Roberts (The Times December 21.
1964), from which he derived the
foikming principles:
l The purpose of the six-month
time Unfit under section 127 was to
ensure that summary offences
were charged and cried as soon as
reasonably practicable after foeir
alleged commission.

2 Where an information had been
laid within six months it could be
amended after expiry of that
period.

3 An information could be
amended after expiry of that
period even to allege a different
offence or offences, provided that
(a) such offences alleged the "same
misdoing" as die original offence
and (b) the amendment could be
made in foe interests of justice.

The phrase “same misdoing"
(see Simpson v Roberts) was not to
be construed too narrowly. It
meant that foe new offence should
arise out of foe same, or substan¬
tially the same, facts as gave rise to
foe original offence.

Once justices were satisfied that
the amended offence did so arise
they had to go on to consider
whether it was in the interests of
justice to allow the amendmatt. In
exercising their discretion they
should pay particular regard to the
interests of the defendant.

If an amendment would result trt
a defendant faring a significantly
more serious charge that should
weigh heavily, perhaps conclu¬
sively, against allowing foe
amendment after the rix-mooth
time Unfit has expired.

There might be cases where a
late application m amend would
give rise to an application far an

adjournment. Were justices to
condude that such an amendmart
would necessitate an adjournment,
that might weD be a good reason.

sectiaa^lZ?. for
refusing to amend.

The need for an adjournment an
that ground ought however, to be
rare since the amended offence
would arise out of the same or
substantially the same fads as the
original offence.

Applying those principles to foe
present cases, his Lordship consid¬
ered that theft and common
assault arose out of foe same or
substantially the same fads as foe
original offence of robbery and
that the interests of justice plainly
required foe amendments.

The justices had applied the
wrong test They had considered
that foe offences were completely
different simply because robbery
was a far graver charge than
common assault and canned the
maximum penalty of fife
imprisonment.

His Lordship would quash foor
derision and direct that they
reconsider the appticatkms in the
light of the coarTS judgment.

The Lord Chief Justice agreed.
Solicitors: William Bains. Scun¬
thorpe: Pressler Barker Sknne,
Scunthorpe.

contracts. ■ .

The appellants. Cornwall
County Care Ltd. had appealed
from a deristdn of a Truro indus¬
trial tribunal last April that Mrs L.
Brigftrman and a number of other
care workers were unfairly dis¬
missed and that the terms and
conditions of their employment
prior to the dismissals continued to
apply on their re-engagemeiiL.
Regulation 8 provides:

“(1) Where either before or after a
relevant transfer, any employee of
foe transferor or transferee Is
dismissed, that employee shall be
treated... as unfairly dismissed if
foe transfer or a reason connected
with H is the reason or principal
reason for his dismissaL"

Mr Patridc Elias. QC, for the
employers; Mr Jeremy McMullen.
QC and Mr Damien Brown for foe
employees.

MR JUSTICE MORISON said
that Cornwall County Council bad
owned and managed a number of
care homes. Those were expeistve
to run.

The council was unable to re-
. negotiate terms for foe staff and a
sebenre was devised whereby most
of the homes would be transferred
to a company created and finan¬
cially supported by the council but
which had independent charitable
status.

Regina v Leeds Crown Cohrt
Ex parte Briggs (Ronald) (No
2)

Before Lord . Justice Pfll and Mr
Justice Gage

{Judgment March 4] -

“Due expedition" for foe purposes
of section 22(3) of the Prosecution of
Offences Ad 1985, required the

ity of a committal under section
60} of the Magistrates’ Court Act
1980 and not merely an un-
contested committal, within the
custody time limit
The Queen's Bench Divisional
Court so held an March 4 when

Briggs for judicial review of de¬
cisions of Judge Jones at Leeds
Crown Court to extend custody

time l imit*

" The applicant who was charged
with bong knowingly concerned
with the importation of cannabis,
had not brim served with a
complete committal bundle in time
to accommodate a committal
under section 6(1) of foe 1980 Act
within the initial>7Bdaiy period; "
On ftbruary 2. foe Divisional
Court had quashed the decision of
Judge Doudn at. Leeds Crown
Court to extend custody time limits
and remitted the case for rehearing

(The Times February 19,1998). ;

Judge Norman Janes granted
prasmffKm applications to extend
foe custody time limit on. February
6 and fbbnuary-II, holding tftar foe
prosecution acted with due ex-
peefitkm for the purposes ofsectiion
22(3) of foe 1985 Act. if they served
txmumttal bundles so that foe
defence was .ut a' position to
' consent to an'uncohtested commit¬
tal within the custody time limn.

In reaching that decision. Judge .
Jones had found a conflict between
the judgment of Mr Justice Jowett
in R v Norwich Crown Court. Ex
parte Parker ((1992) % Cr App R
68) and that of Mr Justice Laws in
R v Central Criminal Coart, Ex .
parte Behbehani ftl994j Crim LR
352) and staled that he was
following the former, '

Section 22 of the 1985 Act
provides:

“(3) The appropriate court may.
at any time before the expiry of a
time limit imposed by regulations.

- extend, or hnther extend, that limit
if satisfied ... (bj.tharfoe prosecu- ■
tion has acted with; due
expedition." / .

. Mr Kris /dtedhffl for foe ap-’
. pficant; Mr . Guy Keart for the
prosecution.

MR JUSTICE GAGE satd that
he agreed with Mr Justice Laws in

Ex parte Behbehani . that the
expression “due dEgem*" did not
mean that the prosecution's only
duty was to achieve the possibility
of a section 6(2) cnmnfatal within
die custody time fimit All due
expedition had to be directed
towards achieving a contested
committal within foe initial Today
period.; -

His Lordship said that, the
comments of Mr Justice Jowirt on
custody time limit? were specific to
the fads of Ex parte Parkeraad not
applicable in every case. In no way
did they conflict wffo the view of
Mr Justice Laws.

. Mr Gledhin contended' that
regulation 40) of the Prosecution of
Offences (Custody Time Llnutsl
Regulations (SI 1937 No299) aimed
at foe holding of a contested
committal within die custody time

limi t. - -- .. , :

Although his Lordship stated h
, was not necessary for him to
consider that submission, he ac¬
cepted foal there was some fora in
H. The regulations made it dear'
that what should be^ accomplished a
. within the eustody time fitntl was w
the whefle cbmn nd al process. -
.. - Lord. Justice PflL'^ddrvered a
concurring judgment
Solicitors: Nicholas Green, Hali¬
fax; Treasury Solicitor. -

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could go to see, someone who referral pr
belonged to the local community •. Midland
and knew the environment 'they return to t
worked in." ' manager \

Mr Bennett says that Midland load soae
has invested in training more branch m
senior bank managers. Every managers'
branch now has a manager who- will have tc
can take decisions on business He says
i loans or, in the case of larger owner, tal
branches, a business specialist than 'man
based at the branch. changed N

Mr Bennett said: “We have . risk, Gfvin
centralised a lot of back-office business lc
functions over the past ten years., taking on c
This has taken out so much of the Banks gi

routine procedures. Before that, we business s
found the branch manager was cover up'
getting bogged down with die individual!
operational running of the branch . Lloyds 1
and was not trained and skilled in business a
business. Now we can put in place . brandies..,
more senior managers who have business sj

Bennett going against trend

not got to wuny as much about day
to day operations." -

-Mr-Bennett argues foal there is
now less reaspnJbr branch manag¬
ers to refer requests for business
loans in central decision-making..
He said: “We used to have semes of
regional officers, but we have done
away until foal arrangement In the
small minority leases tiiac ha ve to
be referred to admacaaaicentre. we
have a much Batter arid qtadeer
referral procedwe."-

■ Midland is.effictivety trying to
return, m fbe days Mien a branch
manager was a ksig-term pfllar of
load society. Mr Bennett, .ones a
branch manager, believes (hat if
managers live in a community they
will have to live with tiwir decisions.

He says foal HSBC, Midlands
owner, takes a Iongerferm view
than many banks; but ' has not
changed Midland's policy on credit
risk. Giving managers more say on
business loads wflinaHead to the
taking on of more marginal cases.

Banks generally have introduced
business specialists who typically
cover up to six branches, either
individually or in teams.

LloydS TSB bas mare than 500
business centres covering, its 2,000
brandies..A spokesmansaid: “The
.business specialists do not stay put -
in the antre. They visit the custom¬
ers ar their own premises or see
them at a local branch. Typically
there are six managers at a
business centre. We hope we have
struck a happy medium-''

■' NatWest says that 92 per cent of
derisions on business loans are
made at local dr regional level. Each
business manager has an individual
level of discretion. If a decision is
referred to higher authority, the
bank will “take on board everything
the local manager says". ; .

Barclays says tiiat although most
derisions are taken locally, it has
introduced greater standardisation
of decision-making idler experience
in the recession. Business specialists
from local centres attend branches.

Julie Kenny. of Pyronix. an electronic security equipment firm, tracks new markets Jeremy Burgess, of GN Burgess & Co, has stacked up several Far Eastern contracts

Search onto find best of British exporters

As the extended 1998 awards loom, Rodney Hobson

reports on the oversea s successes of last year’s winners past winners indude firms wit

rU- _r . •* . .1 ... ■ — . . ■ -. . ■ —•* __ i iL.i _

T he search for top exporters
among Britain’s smaller
companies begins today as
last year’s winners report,
that they have beaten the impart of
the strong pound and the turmoil in.
Asia. The 1998 Export Awards for
Smaller Business have been ex¬
panded to produce 12 regional
. winners. Five winners were picked
on a national basis last year. Total
prize money has been increased,
from about £45,000 to more than
£50,000 in cash and professional
services. A national winner will be
chosen from the regional finalists.
There will also for the first time be a
prize for the best newcomer in its
first year of exporting.

. Last year's five winners earned
export income of more than ,£125
million in 1997. One winner, GN
Burgess & Co, reports that overseas
sales of its products — stacking
chairs and folding tables — in¬
creased 6 per cent in the year to
January 31. •

The company, based at Feltham,
Middlesex, sells to 40 countries.
Jeremy Burgess, managing direc¬
tor. attributes the success to main¬
taining a high profile in countries
already served and targeting new
markets aggressively. He says:

“Exports have always accounted
for 50-60 per cent of rales. The post
couple of years have been tougher
than normal but we have been out.
investigating new markets and
have been successful because of it.

"In some instances we have had
to be competitive with our pricing
ro offset the high value of the pound
but you expect that in business. It
would have been a serious mistake
to reduce our export initiatives
because of these difficulties." -

Despite the economic turmoil in
Asia, GN Burgess has broken into
the Far East It has won two
lucrative contracts in China and
one each in Vietnam and Indone¬
sia. Mr Burgess rays: “We won
those contracts because we had
done the groundwork beforehand
and recognised an opportunity.
When you export you have got to
show you are better than the local
competition. We have always been
very active with trade missions,
exhibitions, advertising and regu¬
lar marker visits.” ’

Pyronix. a Rotherham firm mak¬
ing electronic security equipment,
works to a five-year rolling plan to
identify new markets and the
products needed to make an im¬
part. Julie Kenny, managing direc¬
tor. say's: “We employ a full-time
researcher ro compile and collate as
much information from as many
sources as possible:" These indude
customers, exhibitions, trade mag¬
azines and the DTI.

“We offer our customers foreign
currency quotations which allow
them to remain competitive when
dealing with their customers. It
may tighten our profit margins but
our aim is to build 1 wig-term
relationships."

Giltspur Scientific, a Northern
Ireland company malting ortho¬
paedic shoes for cows, has broken
into the US market since winning
one of the export awards last year.
Because American cattle are larger,
shoes sold there have a slightly
higher heel. Giltspur. founded tty
Ernie Logan, is now working on a

specialised shoe for cows grazing
on Alpine slopes.

Being, which designs children’s
play equipment, has seen its sales
to the Middle and Far East dip over
the past 12 months, mainly because
of the strong pound. It has compen¬
sated by extending operations in
South America.

David Taylor, managing director
of the Bristol company, says:
“Because of our wide range of
clients and markets, we can man¬
age if some markets dry up
temporarily. We are meeting our
sales targets although foe sales are
not always generated where we
would expect them."

The fifth winner last time was
Bernhard & Co of Rugby, which
sells lawnmower sharpening
equipment Stephen Bernhard,
managing director, says foe high
value of sterling has held back
business in the Pacific Rim and
Europe.

Even so. it has broken into
China and Taiwan and expanded

in its main US market Companies
with up to 250 employees can enter
for this year's awards, although
past winners indude firms with
only a handful of staff. Giltspur
Scientific had only eight on the
payroll.

Companies must be able to show
growth in export earnings over the
past three years and a turnover in
foreign sales of more than
£100,000.

The awards are sponsored by the
British Overseas Trade Board,
Gram Thornton, Kompass British
Exports, TNT Express Worldwide
and Uoyds TSB Commercial Fi¬
nance. with support from the CBI.
The British Chambers of Com¬
merce, the TUC and foe Institute of
Export

The 12 regions are Scotland,
Northern Ireland. Wales. North
East North West. Yorkshire and
Humberside. East Midlands, West
Midlands, East South East
London and South West

Application forms are available
from the award administrator on
fax 01342 335860 or at Kompass
British Exports, Reed Business
information, Windsor Court East
Grinstead House. East Grinstead,
West Sussex. RH191XA.

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February winners celebrate their success

It'S only March, and ift all happening. Wolves in the
cup semi-finals, and the Blades in with a chance too.

But that would mean two more premier league dobs

oat of the cup. Yon spe ak as a gnpperter offtt (pane in

general rather than an ITF manager there, I imagine.
Quite so—but also as an ITF manager without any
Leeds players in. his team any more*

I seem to remember that ywj’ve had quite a few Leeds
players at different times.

Always at the wrong times, unfortunately. Mofenaar.
Wetherall, Wallace—I've signed them all, usually just
before their worst games of the season. I learnt from
my mistakes.

And theirs, by the sound of it.

As long as you learn something; my ancestral loyalties
count lor nothing now.

A good thing too. There's no room for sen timen t in
football. So yoo’re unaffected by foe demise «f Leeds did
you come oat of the weekend wdl in general?

Not too badly. Ive got a couple of players from Hearts
now; they’re right up there in the Scottish league, and
they’ve gme through to the soni-finals of the Scottish
cup. Possibilities of a double there, although Celtic and
Rangers are probably thinking the same thing.

South of the border?

West Ham live to fight another day, although another
day fighting Arsenal might not be a good thing. They've
played one another umpteen times this season, and the
Hammers ha vent won yet Plus things often get a bit tasty
when players play each other a lot—witness that little
centre-circle fracas on the final whistle.

Worried about red cards?

There is a risk. The non-appearance of your kjey players
in vital games is a big problem when you haven't got many
transfers left to play with.

The non-appearance of some teams, too.

Absolutely. After what seems to me a king time without
a game, Leicester will finally be playing again next week,
so I might get some points from my man Muzzy, if he
isn’t suspended.

Oh yes, Muzzy Izzct your atari at Filbert Street I
must say, tins is all very nostalgic. Mdfecmar. hzet, all
these names from your past Whatever ha ppened to
Cekstme Babayara, by foe way? Fie was one of yours,
wasn’t he?

Injured, I ‘m afraid, but I In sure bell be back for
Nigeria in die World Cup.

Not much good to yon, is if?

That’s all you know. He's already pencilled in for my
ITF World Cup team.

The £1,000 prize for February has

gone to a proven ITF expert, while

the women’s league winner is a

Liverpool fan from Aldershot

B ong based in Aider-
shot, Corporal Mi¬
chelle Niool finds it
difficult to see
enough of Liverpool her fa¬
vourite team; but, as the
winner of foe ITF women's
league for the month of ftbru-
ary, she receives two tickets to
the premier league game of
her dunce in addition to a
sports bag and a signed foot¬
ball, and it is safe to say that
the reds will feature.

She has followed the Anfield
team for three years. “My
husband lan is well into
football and that’s how I
started gating interested,"
Mrs Nicd said, readily ac¬
knowledging his influence,
particularly in her extensive
use of Scotland-based players
in her team, Michelle’s Men.
“Ian is Scottish — a Hibs fan,
which says it afl, really — and
I got the knowledge of Scottish
football from him. But he’s
also a long-standing supporter
of LivopooL which went down
well in Edinburgh."

Once Mrs Nicol who plays
a tat of football herself when
duties permit, got to grips with
the format of ITF, there was no
stopping her. "I just went for it
in February.” she said — so
much so that she has used up
all but one of the 80 transfers
she had available. “I was after
winning a monthly prize rath¬
er than the league. Obviously
in February there were a lot of.

"I started off with players I
knew, then team form and

SOp a minute, rainy a TondS-
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injuries were the deciding
factors."

Although Michelle’s Men
wifi henceforward have to rely
on an unchanged team, she
has another side handily
placed in foe women’s league,
and, like all successful manag-

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MichelkNicoL women’s league winner for February, receives lierawfod from Jason Dodd, the Southampton defender

era, is looking to the future. -
"Now I folly understand foe
rules, IH be ready for next
season," she said.

Jon Prcgon of Nottin gham-
shire is one man who clearly
has no difficulty understand¬
ing the rules, having won foe
main league prize for the fluid
month m succession. Like
Susan MaJdn, the internet
monthly winner, he receives
£1,000in addition to the match
tickets and sports equipment.
The latter also go to G.
Richards, of FDtan, Bristol '
and Kerin Muiheam. of Ler¬
wick, the youth and students’
league winners.

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INTERACTIVE TEAM FOOTBALL 25

_ The eli mination of premier Jga^tea^
£HPjhas left ITF entrants

igUes for FA Cup and main leagues

T here was good news
ana baa news for ITF
entrants in the cup
games played over

me weetend. The good news
came m the form of replays for
Arsenal, West Ham and Cov¬
entry City, offering a further
opportunity for points storing
for competitors whose selec¬
tions include players or man¬
agers from those teams.

The bad news for those in
-jty conation for the ITT Fa Cup
League was the elimination of
Leeds United and St John¬
stone by first division sides
Wolves and Falkirk. It was
specially ironic that Jimmy
Floyd Hasselboink, featured
on these pages a week ago as
one of the top points-scorers
among players remaining hi "
the FA Cup, should have failed
to convert the last-minute penr
aity that would have sent his
team into a replay at
Molineux. Cup exit, defeat,
and die deduction of a point
for missing a penalty — a bad
day at the office. It was
fortunate that the referee did
not appear to notice the inri-
jty dent which followed the penal-
w ty and could also have resulted
in a dismissal (minus three
more points).

At the moment, depending '
on die outcome of the Sheffield
United versus Coventry replay ‘
and last night's Rangers v
Dundee game, there could still
be six premier league teams
involved in the semi-finals,
which enables anyone with

either enough transfers; iii
hand or, aiteritativ^y* impec¬
cable foresight; to field
strong squad in thefrvPA Cup
teams. A Sheffield win next
Tuesday, and ten becomesthe
maximum. 1 ; ' .

The mghtinare spenfoia of:
course, would be a Sheffield
United v Wolves .FA Cup final
with Falkirk playing, say.
Heart of Midlothian in die
Tennents Scottish. cup final
Since the rules of Interactive
Team Football prohibit the use
of more than two representa¬
tives of any one cfub, that
would mean that competitors
would oitiy have a couple.of
their players, at most, active
on the final day of tiieseasoo
(barring replays), both from
Hearts. A difficult derision,
then, for those with two trans¬
fers to use and seven men to
pick, from. Neil McCann and

- DavkJ Wejr. perhaps? Or John
Robertson and GiUes Rousset?

Inafl probability itwiD not
• ccdnefoihat,andDion,Mar-
xo, Heor&and-cbmpanywill
opportunity to oon-
tribute, a few mare points to
the totals :b£ those, who'have
stood by fccm ows-Jheseasoru-
Ido flat f orget that FA/Cup
\jHsd count towards a
si pfeytraoverall scorei Marco
'Negri, after all. remains the

-by

iPefer Sttuneachet overall),
DicBiiDuhlmdid scort Cpyaa-
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his missed, tackle -Aowed
Sheffirid Umted thoFequitlr’.
Vfeer.and Henrifc JESissbri^S;
fete, low cress was turned, into

- hfeownnet byErik'Bsderaon.

N evertheless, en
trants wiih.obly a
.few transfer*, re¬
maining unused,
especially those with eyes on
-the FA Cup prize, need-to
consider their choices very
carefully. By next Wednesday,
either West Ham United or
Arsenal will be concentrating
on the league, and the Fa Cup
future of Coventry will have
. been deddedL : Before then.
Arsenal will have played
Manchester United at Old
Trafford. Those with, confi¬
dence in foe Gunners may feel
' thtit Bergkamp or Overtnars
would be useful acquisitions.

NICK SZCZEPANTK Dion Dublin, right, celebrates his penalty against Sheffield United on Saturday

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There are no transfers in ITF this week

HOW TO MAKE A TRANSFER

□ YOU MAY transfer as and when you wish according to your
team transfer allowance. If a player or manager moves teams
during the season, it may affect the composition of your team.
You may adjust your team by using the transfer system to avoid
missing out on points.

□ EACH TEAM that was entered at the start of the season was
located 60 transfers for the se ason and each team registering
after that data had its number of transfers reduced by three per
week up to December 13. Teams registered before noon that day
were allocated an extra 20 transfers. Teams registered since then
and from now on will be allocated 20 transfers for the rest of the
season.

□ THE LINE is open now and will remain open for the rest of the
season. You may only make transfers by using a Touch-tone
(DTMF) telephone (most push-button telephones with a * and a
hash key are Touch-tone). You will need ten digits tor your PIN
which you wiH have to tap in (not speak). Follow the simple
instructions and tap in foe five-digit codes of foe players foal you
are transferring.

□ YOU MAY make up to four transfers per call but may make as
many calls as you wish to achieve the required amount of
transfers.

□ TRANSFERS made before 12 noon on any day will become
effective for matches starting after that time. Transfers made after
12 noon will become effective for matches starting after 12 noon
the foliowing day.

□ YOUR NEW player only starts to score points for you when his
transfer is registered. The current score erf the player transferred
out remains part of your team score but he then ceases to score
for you.

□ CALLS COST 50p per minute and calls from a telephone box
cost approximately twice as much.

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THE TIMES TODAY

TUESDAYMARCH 101998

Vendetta against me says Prescott

■ John Prescott claimed last night that he was the victim of a
“concerted and shadowy" campaign to undermine him in his
Hull constituency.

The Deputy Prime Minister told The Times: “I do not know
who it is or why they are doing it But for the last few months,
people have been trying to blacken my name, and it is time to
say something about it It is a vendetta" - Page J

McAliskey wins extradition fight

■ Raisin McAliskey, the terrorist suspect, won her 15-month

fight against extradition to Germany on IRA bombing charges.
Jack Straw, the Home Secretary, ruled that' Ms McAliskey,
who is suffering from post-natal depression, should not be sent
to Germany because the extradition would be “unjust and
oppressive"_Page 1

Woodward case

Louise Woodward may have to
face full retrial over the death of
eight-month-old Matthew Eap-
pen — and if she does, her defence
lawyers are prepared to ask
for the baby's body to be
exhumed--—.-..Page I

Russian embargo

Russia joined its Western part¬
ners in denouncing Serb repres¬
sion in Kosovo and by imposing a
weapons embargo-....Pages 1.12

Prince’s operation

The Prince of Wales was admitted
to hospital Tor keyhole surgery to
to correct damage to his right
knee. He was discharged after a
few hours---Page 1

Fathers’ rights

Unmarried fathers could be given
the same rights of parental re¬
sponsibility as married men-The
move comes after protests from
men who discover they have few
rights over their child-Page 2

Fighting back

Beverley Hammett, severely dis¬
figured after a hitman mistakenly
threw nitric add in her face, is
determined not to let the injuries
ruin her life____Page 3

‘Mad cow* evidence

The public inquiry into BSE is to
be extended by six months at the
request of the presiding judge
because of the growing mountain
of evidence that his committee
will have to scale-—...-.. Page 6

Driver killed seven

An alcoholic who killed three
members of a family as he drove
with a bottle of vodka in his hand
was jailed for seven years Page 7

Death damages

People who suffer mental illness
after witnessing or hearing of a
relative's death should be able
to daim damages, the Gov¬
ernment's law reform body
says-Page 8

Not amused

The Teletubbies were under at¬
tack from international broad¬
casters at a London conference for
being superficial, non-education-
al. too commercial and altogether
too cheerful - —-Page 9

Wives in action

Germany's political leading la¬
dies are preparing for the first
time in postwar history to enter
the election fray Page 11

Stranger than fiction

An angry woman threatened to
sue President Clinton for denying
having an affair with her. She
said his action was damaging to
sales of her novel, a thinly dis¬
guised account of the alleged
affair -Page 13

Nationalists hope

Right-wing Hindu nationalists
are within striking distance of
forming a coalition government
in India, taking the world's sec¬
ond most populous country into
uncharted waters ——Page 15

Piavte w . Fourwomenm fteir thir-
.ties prepare ffr-nso&ei&ood. Ifite
Amwi& fBBC2.9pmJ. Maws Joe

the making

Pages 5 ft SI

The strange roMrtii

Mr Ashdown has had Ins best mo-
Tjfan fr when .he- has. taken stands
foat were principled, often unpopu¬
lar, but right The lib Dem leader
Heeds smew cause— —PagelS

Mo d e r n i sin g monarchy

It has-been hinted that the Royal

Family is eaasHJermg;change* m
tides, alterations tothe Civil EJsi- a "

tuini im j -a i>: Vi-i > 'ii,

Economy: High Street sales slowed
significantly in February, confirm¬
ing the suspicion that January's
sales were the result of discounts
rather than a display of consumer

confidence-Page 27

Merger off: Reed Elsevier, the An-
glo-Duteh publisher, has aban¬
doned a £17-5 billion merger with
publishers. Waiters WuwerPagt 27

Budding societies: Halifax has
made a formal approach to Birm¬
ingham Midshires, the building so¬
ciety that was about to recommend
to members the Royal Bank of
Scotland-—- - Page 27

Markets: TheFTSE 100 rose 36D to
5818.9. Sterling fell from 105.4 to
105.1 after foiling from $1.6372 to
$1.6365 and from DM2.9995 to
DM2.9905-Page 30

Rugby union: Northampton have
agreed to release their players to
tour with England in the summer.,
leaving Clive Woodward a freer
hand with which to select for the
remaining Five Nations Champ¬
ionship matches.-.-..--Page 52

Football: Trevor Francis relumed
as Birmingham City manager, less
than 48 hours after his decision to
resign, having received assurances

from the chairman-Page 52

Motor racing: The worid governing
body rejected the complaint lodged
by the organisers of the Australian
Grand Prix over Mika Hakkmen’S
win from David CoulthardPage 52

Cricket With Michael Atherton
struggling to find form speculation
has resumed over the captaincy of
I the one-day side_——Page 46

High Street label for the Royal Opera

■ A shopping trip to Marks & Spencer brought the Royal
Opera House a little closer to. becoming the people’s opera.
They had wanted their singers to be dressed by Giorgio
Armani. Instead they went to the store's Marble Arch branch
in search of outfits for nine singers in a revival of a modem-
dress version Cost fan tutte - Page 5

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Addlcts, oflkM fan cfcsbcftfw Arabics !M:ai2L,773QUl

Camera mar. Three exhibitions m
London celebrate the 90th birthday
of Ham Cartier-Bresson, the pho¬
tographer who has watched Euro¬
pean life over 60 years—Page 37
Road show: The latest offering in
the New Directions season at
Hampstead is Steve Waters’s in¬
triguing play English Journeys, set
entirely in die front seats of
cars--......——Page 38

Moving story: The charismatic
American choreographer Bill T.
Jones talks about his career and his
latest full-length dance, in London
next week----Page 39

Twin bk wil n gi : In the Nimmb
Twins’ worid of intelligent sketch
comedy, the shipping forecast be¬
comes an accomt of a manls night
out with his wife-Page 39

TOMORROW

IN THE TIMES

■ HOMES
The Archers has been
accused of making a
crisis out of a drama:
only in die People &
Property supplement

■[INTERFACE
A future fer DNA?

The weekly technology
supplement reports

Air smites: How a course fin- ner¬
vous passengers helped to 'over¬
come “aerophobia"—P*gel6
Smoked out: Dr Thomas Stutta-
ford says that many of . Batata's
12 million smokers amid find Mat
ional No Smoking Day less hmv
radons than expected .—.Page 16
Giron- w rite : Junk faxes are irri¬
tating and hard to stop, says Mag¬
nus LinkUter— Page-16
Cfty ihk The. Nineties : are the
do wnshifting decade. But what if
you yearn merely for a cheaper life
in thecity?.........-Page 17

Export mgwrtK-The search for top
exporters among Britain's small
businesses starts today __.P*ge 23

Mock horror ahoar.-The QC "was
wonderful, his Blooms bu ry' voice
rising in mock horror^ detonating
- little egjlosions of ridicule”: The
Romans in Britain trial —Ptege4I
Disrobing: Should robing roomsbe
urtisex? David Panrack. QC, re-
veals the sec rete - — ..... — . — Page 8

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ANATOUE KALETSKY

The Budget is foe first' great oppar-
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injustices ofJaisserfoire capitalism
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LAW

What a battle:
The Romans in
Britain recalled
PAGES 41-43

SPORT

Woodward makes
players choose
dub or country
PAGES 46-52

TUESDAY MARCH 101998

Sales recession looms

. ■ - By Janet Bush

V. ECONOMICS EDITOR

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HIGH STREET sales slowed down
significantly in February, confirming
the suspicion feat January's bumper
sales were fee result of steep discounts
rather than a display of consumer
confidence. The British Retail Consor¬
tium’s latest sales monitor today shows
that the value of retail sales rose 3.4 per
oent last month,against a 6.1 percent
-increase in January and g row t h of 4.8
per cent in December.

. Together wife yesterday's figures
showmg feat manufacturing is very
dose to falling into recession and
another set of subdued industrial costs
arid ‘ prices figures, fee City and

business said that fee latest snapshot
of the high street vindicated last week’s
derision by fee Bank of England's
Monetary fbticy Committee (MFC) not
to raise interest rates.

Andrew Higginson, Chairman of the
BRC economic affairs committee, said
that customers had evidently shopped
in January during fee sales rather man
paying full prices in February. He said
that many homeowners whose mort¬
gages are reviewed annually faced a
steep rise in repayments in January
after five rate rises last year. This may
"have depressed spending.

Sales for the three months to
February grew 4.7 per cent, against a
rise of 4 per cent in fee ferae months to
January. However, the BRC said that

this did not indicate an acceleration in
activity but reflected the fact that a very
weak figure in November fell out of the
three-month comparisons.

The Office for National Statistics
yesterday reported that industrial out¬
put, which indudes fee energy sector
and fee output of utilities, fell 0.6 per
cent in February against City expecta¬
tions of a 0-2 per cent rise. Manufactur¬
ing, forecast go rise a little, showed no
growth at all in February. Both
industrial production and manufactur¬
ing will have to show much improve¬
ment in February and March to avoid
the sectors registering a recession,
usually measured as two consecutive
quarters of contraction. Most forecast¬
ers do not believe feat industry is likely

to rebound; fee pound remains strong
and lower demand and price ami peti¬
tion from Asia has put exporters under
more pressure.

The ONS also reported another set
of benign producer prices figures as
the strong pound continued to bear
down on import costs. In February,
input prices fell 0.2 per cent, leaving
the year-on-year rate at minus 95 per
cent. Output prices were flat, though
without food, drink, tobacco and
petroleum fee underlying picture
shows a rise of just 0.4 per cent.
Jonathan Loynes, of HSBC Markets,
noted dial, barring revisions, this
could be the lowest rate for 30 years.

C omm en ta ry, page 29

Halifax
tops
RBS’s
bid for

Reed abandons £17bn

society

merger with Wolters

Limelight
defends
float as
it falls

SYiUfiieNB Snobby, mbxma ebteor

By Richard Miles
BANKING COBOtESPOITOENT

HALIFAX has trumped
Royal Bank of Scotland's
■gited £63&.miBi«p take¬
over of Bhnuagkam
Midshires BuSdSng Soci¬
ety by offering arotnda!5
per cent premium on fee
price and guaranteeing
there would be no aw*pul-
Soxy redundancies.

. The. MMs hjp cs boa rd. 7
ted by Mike JHEthm fee
chief executive, wffl cBtue
under intense p re s sure
from its one mifeen-pfus
members to reoemniifed •'
fee unsofirited KS0"mflr
Hon offer from Hafi&x.

Members stand: to tc-.
ceive windfalls of afxwtf'
£75© ia fee autumn, am
extra £00 compared wife
fee ep p p ri ' offer from
RBS. fast night, KBS re¬
fused 48 badge an fee,
terms it struck wife
Mtdshircs in August' .

Halifax said its proposal
offered sigBificanfly moTe
value to MMsWres mem¬
bers, as itrepresented a"
premium of between 23-8 .
and 28.9 percentoverfee
RBSdeat

Halifax said.: there,
would bew conqndsery;
redundanries among tine
2,400-stroog woriefaras.
The majority of staff and,
branch offices wffl be re¬
tained “ever fee short to
medhiEEi tew", wiate fee
brand wffl be kept far"
three years. RBS pledged
to retain staff; benches
and brand foramimranm
of three years.

The CSty was umm-

pressed by the offer. Many
analysts were expecting
something more strategic
from Halifax, given its £4
billion cafe surplus, mid
some suggested fee bank
had been stangiato action
by criticism «f its yeaarend
results last week.

THE {37 boffion merger of
Reed . Elsevier, fee .An^o-
Dufafa-i idc ja c a ion fid gobtafe-
cau nsd aufonuoriaa group,
am Wo l ters Ktewezv of Tfie
Nefeerfands, cettagsed yes-
terday under tike threat of

Reed’s London-traded.
sharesfefl 57p to 620pasNigel
Stapleton, co-chairman . of
Reed Elsevier; said he was
"extremely, disappointed feat
we couldn’t ntu&e fee merger
wqrl^iTfte .derision toRbort •

en ; ai a Reed Efaerier boaid =
meeting in London yesterday,
when directora . agreed feey
would not meet Walters'S de¬
mand thatterms of fee deal be
renegotiated because' of oonr
dittoes hkely fobe aflachedby

statement, Reed
Jhteroa^wiatand Elsevier, its
partner, said their
boards conducted : feat “to
make fee significant dtanges
to fee terms feat

Wters^KhNna- felt iwoessaiy
» jwqteri fee interests of its
shareholders would make fee
merger una t trac tive from fee
sa uri pp in tof &e Reed Inter-
natia pal. and Elsevier share-
. Mdera".

_The companies saidnoofe-.
er matters bad arisen during
the course of fee'financial due ;
febgence between fee parties
that would otherwise have
given cause for the merger fo
be cancelled. T . • •

/Welters appears to base
been -more" pessimistic fean
Reed about the scale arid
financial impact of fee likely
disposals .feat - might .be.
. radered fey; Brussels in, order
‘toaeant regidatery approval
and asted ferafargex share of
feemergiadocffltpany,

- Reed Elsevier , and Watars

; announced tbear plans te join
forces last October and fee
European Union qpaied a foil
probe, into die merger in
December; Speculation
emerged late last weds, that fee
deal had run into problems. '

Reed Elsevier and Wolters ,

were to meet face to face with
rival companies at a heanng
tanxterow and Thursday
organised byfeeEU^axnpe-
titkai watchdc^ as part of its
merger review.

The Commisapn had , re¬
ceived complaints aboot po-
teritial dominance of fee tax
and legal publication busi¬
ness. Rival companies cur¬
rently marketing their prod¬
ucts through Reed's Lexis-
Nestis database bad also
expressed concerns feat their
contracts could be terminated
in favour of Wotes products.

- Yesterday Mr Stapleton
said Reed Elsevier had decid¬
ed not to go ahead “more in
sorrow and-not in anger". His
company's strategy was still
intact he added.

Management egos had not
been a factor in fee collapse of
the merger, said Mr
Stapleton, who had accepted
the post of deputy chief execu¬
tive in the enlarged company.

. This is the second time tins

- year that a large merger has
been cancelled because of
problems in securing regular
tory clearance. Audit firms
KPMG arid Ernst & Young
also partly blamed anti-trust
concerns far calling off then-
plans.-

• InBrussds.asaurcec3oseto :
fee- talks said competition
problems posed by the deal
could have been solved, add¬
ing that fee cancellation had
surprised die Commission.

into red

By Chris Ayres

I .tf:

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Commentary, page 29 Nigd Stapleton said Reed had decided not to go ahead "more in sorrow and not in anger"

Commentary, page 29

By Gavin Lumsden

Halifax would have te cut
Mfcfehircs’ costs by 30ti»50
per cent, with inevitable
staff losses, if fe e.bamk w ere
to hit its growth tagets. ■ ; ■
However, birring last-
xainute intervoaticto . by
anofeer snitar. most mat 1 *
bet watchers believe it will
(je difficult - for - the
Midshires board jog* *».

LLOYDS TSB is negotiatii^
fee sale of its Black Horse
estate agencies to Bradford &
■ Btngley Building Society, it

'Lloyds was fee first bank to
venture into estate agency
when it set up Blade Horae in
1982. In the property boom of
fee mid ana laie-198Gs other
. lenders and insurers quickly
fcrflowed, only to bale out after

the market crashed in 1989.
Prom i nen t casualties of the
crash included the Prudential
and Nationwide.

Analysts said the move
would inevitably speed up
corporate withdrawal from
the sector, which continues to
be highly co m petitive despite
the strong recovery in proper¬
ty prices in fee past two years.

Black Horse is the fourth
largest estate agent employ¬
ing 3.000 people in 370

branches. But it was a margin¬
al business for Lloyds TSB.
which is able to market hs
financial services through its
Abbey Life and Cheltenham &
Gloucester subsidiaries.

A rumoured £50 million
management buyout of Black
Horse, led fry managing direc¬
tor David Woodoodc. who
joined Uoyds when it acquired
his East Anglian estate agency
in 1982. failed to maimalise.
Yesterday Uoyds said Black

Horse had around £35 million
in nei assets.

Bradford & Bingley said the
acquisition would double its
presence art the high street,
boosting its 35 per cent share
of the mortgage market No
job losses are expected.

This is the second deal in a
year between Uoyds TSB and
B&B. Last May the society
bought Mortgage Express.

Commentary, page 29 B&B: doubling presence

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THE full extent of fee woes of
Limelight, the kitchens and
bathrooms group, since it
made its controversial debut
an the stock market two years
ago was laid bare yesterday.

The company, founded fay

Stephen Boler. incurred excep¬
tional costs of DB million last
year, ft also wrote off £4.1 mil¬
lion on the disposal of its
windows division and a fur¬
ther £93 million of goodwill
and exceptional costs. Umef
light shares, floated at 175p.
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•The issues in 1997 could not be
foreseen," he said. “Mr Boler
has been very supportive in
terms of guaranteeing our
overdraft He’s the last person
who enjoys the way this looks."

Limelight reported a 1997 i
pre-tax loss of £123 million,
compared with profits of £23
mfllion in 1996. Turnover was !
down slightly to £154.1 million,
from £157 million. Losses per
share were II 5p (earnings of
1.4p). There will be no djvidoid.

Mr Sianway said he had
“dealt with the big structural
issues", but that there was
more work to be dene. Lime¬
light has integrated its Dol¬
phin bathrooms and MKD
kitchens businesses and re¬
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Granada
to launch
home

shopping

By Raymond S noddy

MEDIA EDITOR

GRANADA GROUP is join¬
ing with Littiewoods to launch
a new home-shopping tele¬
vision channel.

They plan to launch the new
channel in the autumn, to be
available on all the new digital
television services — satellite,
cable and terrestrial. The ven¬
ture could create up to 1,000
jobs in Liverpool over five
years.

Steve Morrison, chief execu¬
tive of Granada Media
Group, said yesterday that the
channel would feature “main¬
stream” goods from the 15,000
items in their home-shopping
catalogues, which have more
fean four million regular
customers.

Granada, a 50 per cent
shareholder in British Digital
Broadcasting, the main com¬
mercial digital terrestrial ser¬
vice, has always made it dear
that it planned to launch a
shopping channel as part of
the 30-channel package.

Initially. Littiewoods, whose
interests include football pools
apart from retail and mail
older, has 05 per cent of the
venture and Granada 35 per
cent. Granada, however, has
an option to lift its stake to 50
percent

Barry Gibson, chief execu¬
tive of littiewoods, said be
believed that in fee next five or
ten years digital would be the
dominant form of television.

Granada plans to show the
channel on existing television
late ax night in Hs own four
I7V franchises — Granada,
Yorkshire, T^n e-Tees and
London Weekend Television.

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THE TIMES TUESDAY MARCH 101998

British Energy
shares race on
£ 160 m forecast

BRITISH ENERGY shares
surged yesterday as the
nuclear power group issued a
bullish trading statement and
distanced itself from the pric¬
ing squeeze faced by its rival
coal-burning electricity
generators.

British Energy told the mar¬
ket that profits for the year
ending March 3J are likely to
be more than £160 million,
compared with E61 million
last year, after a rise in sales
and savings from its cost¬
cutring programme.

Analysts had been predict¬
ing profits of £J00-£130 mil¬
lion. a British Energy
spokesman said.

The group also took the

By Adam Jones

opportunity to remind inves¬
tors that it has never had any
“coal-backed contracts”. These
now-defunct supply deals
obliged regional electricity
companies to pay more for
power supplied by coal-
backed power plants.

Last week. National Power
revealed that it must take a
£130 million hit from the
termination of these contracts,
causing the share price to fall
sharply.

Angelos Anastastou, a Cred¬
it Lyonnais Laing analyst, said
he was now expecting about
£167 million in annual pre-tax
profits from British Energy.

By early afternoon, the
shares were standing 6 per

cent higher at 456p. British
Energy was privatised by the
last Government in 1996 and
the shares have risen from
189p.

The spokesman said the
effect of planned shutdowns
for maintenance at nuclear
power plants had been over¬
estimated by analysts.

Regulators scheduled seven
such shutdowns at British
Energy plants in the current
financial year, compared to
four last year. There should be
only four next year.

The price paid for its elec¬
tricity has also risen, although
the increase has been con¬
strained by fixed-price
contracts.

W H Smith aims for buyback
on top of £68m Menzies deal

WH SMITH is to press ahead
with a capital repayment to
shareholders despite confir¬
mation yesterday that ir is to
buy the rival John Menzies
retail chain for £68 million.

The group has yet to say
how much shareholders will
receive, but in the wake of last
month's £300 million sale of
the Waterstone’s bookshop
chain, analysts believe that it
could pay out up to £250 mil¬
lion through a share buyback.

Buying the 232-siore Menzies
chain takes Smith into the Scot-

By Dominic Walsh

tish market. Mertzies’s name
will be kept in Scotland, where
it was founded [65 years ago.
but most of the 140 Menzies
stores in England and Wales
will be rebranded. Overlap
with Smith's 509 shops will
mean some job losses and
estimated cost savings of more
than £6 million a year.

The acquisition, which is
subject to the approval of John
Menzies shareholders, pushed
Smith shares lO'zp higher to
503^ p. although observers
gave warning that the integra¬

tion of Menzies could prove
difficult at a time when the
group is still trying to revive
the core WH Smith chain.

The sale follows John
Menzies’s announcement in
January that it planned to
withdraw from retailing in
order to concentrate on its
distribution business. In addi¬
tion to seeking offers for its
newsagents chain. Menzies
said that it planned to
demerge its Early Learning
Centre toy shop business with¬
in three to five years.

John Roberts, left, and Phil Reeder, of Expamet

Expamet lifts payout

EXPAMET, the building and
industrial products group,
raised pre-tax profits from £7.2
million to £9.7 million in the
year to December 31 after ex¬
cluding non-recurring items.
Earnings per share, on a
similar basis, rose from 7-30p
to I0L4Ip. AZ15p final dividend
lifts the total payout from 330p
to 185p. Shares in Expamet, of

which Phil Reeder is- chief
executive, responded with a
9 * 2 p rise to 141p. John Rob¬
erts. chairman, said: “Pros¬
pects for the existing
operation in 1998 are good.
With our strong balance sheet
there is also the potential to
make further acquisitions
consistent with our strategic
and financial objectives.”

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"1997 was a year of both financial and strategic
achievement. We made good progress both in
underlying businesses and through acquisition. Sales
increased by 12 per cent, operating profit by 9 per cent
and profit before tax and exceptional items by 7 per
cent. This growth was particularly pleasing given the
strength of sterling."

Gary Allen, Chief Executive

Mirror’s

up before
costs of
MIN deal

By Raymond snoddy

MEDIA EDITOR

MIRROR GROUP, the news¬
paper publisher, reported a
rise in underlying pre-tax profit •
to £92 million from £82 million
last year.. :

However, a £12 million ex¬
ceptional charge for integra¬
tion and financing costs, prior

itiwfof Midland Independent
Newspapers; left pre-tax profit,
of £80 million for 1997. down
from £101 million in 1996. The
company, whose flagship titles :
are The Mirror and Sunday
Mirror, said turnover rose 4 1
per cent to £559 million. i

There was no update ori the
proposed sale of the 46 per I
cent stake in Newspaper Pub¬
lishing, the company that pub¬
lishes The Independent and
th e Independent on Sunday.

Tony O’Reillys Indepen¬
dent Newspapers, based in the
Republic of Ireland, also owns.!
46 per cent of Newspaper
Publishing and is expected to
buy the Mirrors stoke this
week. The Irish group is'
expected to take on £26 million
in debt from and pay about £3
million in cash. In addition
Mirror Group will have a
management services con¬
tract, to handle The Indepen¬
dent and ran its “backroom”,
worth about £3.7 millioa a
year for five years.

David Montgomery, Mir¬
ror Group chief executive, yes¬
terday said the results demon¬
strated “the continuing
robustness” of the core busi¬
ness, while the MIN acquisi¬
tion had created a more broad¬
ly based media business:

As a result of the MIN
acquisition net debt increased
to £522 million from £292 mil¬
lion and gearing to 89 per cent
from 49 per cent Cash Dow.
from operating activities rose
13 per cent to £136 million. .

Mr Montgomery said the
“rejuvenation" of The Mirror
was working and that cash
sales — as opposed to dis¬
counted copies or special pro¬
motions — were up 30.000-
The next stage would be to
make improvements at the
Sunday Mirror.

Underlying earnings rose 9 .
per cent to 15.6p a share. The
total dividend is lifted 11 per
cent to 5p. with a 3.5p final-

RYANAIR yesterday jaised the stakes- 'in "the battle of the
peanut airlines" with a. £670 million order for pew planes,
.faced with the-imminehl challenge aLBritish Airways’ new
low-cost service;<3o,.ithe Irish airunetfemusuated its own
financial clout wife an order lor 25 Boeing 737300s.

Ryanair, the tongest-eslahlished taw-fare airline in Europe,
has options to l^2D.fr«re, s whicb could add £550Trillion to
the order* value; ^Ryanair said that ft would finance its
purchase through a mkture of rash and borrowings.

Astec directors voted out

EMERSON ELECTRIC the US company thal owns 51 peT cent
of Astec (BSR), yesterday voted out three directors of the UK.
- electrical pows: products group. Michael Arrowszmth. finance
director, Mtrhael Smith, chief operating officer, and Neal
Stewart technical director and co-founder, who oppose plans to
. block, dividend payments and buy out minority shareholders,
are replaced by, Stephen Gortinovis, Olivier Ddage and Robert
Staley, afl Emerson nominees. . . Commentary,page 29

More jobs go at BSS

BSS. the industrial-products group, yesterday said a further .
100 staff wo uld lose their jobs in a reorganisation, in addition
to the 50 redundancies announced in December. The
company’s shares fell 20p to 4Q5p after it said that, although
trading was in line- with expectations, a project to supply
materials to a proposed semiconductor plant in Newport was
several months behind schedule, deferring sales worth about
£4.5 million. Redundancy costs will total around ELS million.

Waste group up 49%

WASTE RECYCLING, die waste control group, raised pre- ;
tax profits 49 per cent to £6.1 million last year, on sales up 77
-percentto £272 mOtion. Earnings advance from flip to 10.9p
and die total dividend-is up 25 per cent to 25p a share after
payment of a ].9p final, up 0.4p. The shares gained 12p to
357*2 p. The group said; “We continue to evaluate opportuni¬
ties to acquire furtberwaste management businesses and are
optimistic about this year's prospects."

BSkyB finance chief dies

NICK CARRINGTON; chief financial officer of BSkyB. the
.satellite TV venture, has died aged 47 after a short illness. Mr
Carrington was in his second spell at BSkyB. He was deputy
director of finance from 1989 to 2991 when Sky launched its first
four channels and merged with BSB to create BSkyB. He was .
then group finance director at RdyGram UK before returning to
BSkyB in May 1995 as chief financial officer. BSkyB is 40 per
cent owned by News Intefnarional, owner of The Times.

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BUSINESS NEWS 29

B essels is being blamed for
Ming the £J7_5 hfflion
I Wishing merger of Reed

potters Khiwer.
J™;!* 0 !!*** protracted 4eal>

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^ erected hoops.

It was last October when they
plan and tttgr
even then that there
^'ould be areas of overlap so
S^.as to demand disposals.
Toe intervening months have
seal the regulators raise more
questions than the companies
may have anticipated but as
recently as last weekend, Peed
was working on possible sol-
ufatms. It seems that it was
Wolters 1 directors who tired of

the Process, thnw un duiirtiaiwle

Dutch courage falters

. s^'d “Let’s forget the whole

It is hard-to resist the parallel
with that ‘other mega^nerger
foiled to con y into

Wellc ome. £n both cases, the
crenpanies made such eloquent
Arguments in favour of Ihe deals!
that it is difficult for them in walk
away from the idea without a
certain loss of credibility.

_ The market had been enthusias¬
tic about the benefits to be had

from burning fee Angfo-Dutch

ReedElseviermtoevennioreofa
Netherlands operation: by join¬
ing farces with Wolters Mower.
Its/ disappoinlmciit registered
hard on me Reed share price.

The normally tricky area of
personalities appeared to have
been dealt with, as- Nigel
Stapleton, the Reed boss, pre¬
pared gracefully to let his Dutch
counterpart take fee top job. So
cymes are now suggesting feat
perhaps the sordid issue ca price
had become a sulqect- far dis¬
cussion again-Did Wolters think
tins .was the moment to try to
renegotiate fee terms more in
favour of its shareholders? If tiiat
was fee case, Mr Stapleton and
his board. were cfearJy not
interest ed. .

The comp a nies always knew
that tiiere would have to be smne
disposals to keep Brussels
happy: in legal pum&ang there
were obvious- monopoly prpb-
tems. But given fee nature of the
two' companies and fee cost
savings to be made, negotiating
with me bureaucrats as to what,
sacrifices might be required
should have been worthwhile.

The delays Brussels has m-
fficted cm the proposed British
Airways link' up wife American
Airlines demonstrate just how

powerful Karel van Mien is, but
it will be to the detriment of
industry if be" is allowed to block
deals by default

Cazenove capers
in the limelight

light continue to learn. It was
November 1996 when they saw
the company in. its freshly pol¬
ished state and were induced to
pour in £114 nrnBibn, encouraged
by fee jpresence of snooty

Cazenove m the role of salesman.

Now the grime is all too obvious,
and some of it looks to be the
accumulation of more than just a
few months.

■ Investors are unlikely to feel
particular gratitude to the non¬
executive dfrector who is ensur¬
ing that the company keeps
afloat by guaranteeing its
escalating overdraft Stephen

COMMENTARY

by our City Editor

Boler, for it is he, tods, out a cod
£60 million when the company
floated. He wanted fee money to
fund his ambitions for saving the
white rhino in his very own
safari park in the Kalahari
desert Perhaps be realised that
donations for this noble cause
may have been hard to come by,
but investors in limelight may
not have realised that they were
part of a project aimed at
conserving wildlife rather than
shareholder vahre.

The company is now making
much of fee fad that it has
replaced Stephen Cotter as chief
executive, hut the unfortunate
Cotter was not responsible for
giving Moben kitchens and Dol¬
phin bathrooms such a sparkle
that tiie shares sold at I75p,
against last night's 3&5p. Ste¬
phen Boler built the business and
knew what he was selling. So
presumably be was not too
siaprisedwhen pulling out of the
windows business, as limelight
has date, brought a write-off of

£13.4 mflffcm. Not every com¬
pany that cranes to market lives
up to its prospectus, but this one
has tarnished at record speed.
The fan that Boler is now back
offering help and advice in a
consultancy opacity is not guar¬
anteed to ignite new enthusiasm
for the shares.

The statement from Limelight
yesterday contained insights
which would have been useful
additions to the prospectus feat
Cazenove so btifedy allowed to
be published. Now there are
hints that there may be problems
with the Moben image. The
strategy for the future involves
"repositioning of Moben as a
retail brand” There is to be a
”rationalisation of fee showroom
network and relocation of poorly
sited units".

Would investors have been so
keen to buy had they realised
that the brand needed
repositioning and so did some of
fee sites?

Investors tend not to quibble

with Cazenove, believing that
there win be treats handed out to
compensate for fee odd dis¬
appointment. This time, how¬
ever, they should make their
views known. And if they are also
left holding shares in Astec
where Cazenove is trying to do
them out of a decent price for
their minority shares, they may
just feel inclined to do so.

Inflation hawks’
flight of fancy

I nveterate interest rate hawks
continually paint out that
manufacturing represents
only a fifth of the British econ¬
omy. Its plight in fee face of fee
strong pound and chill winds
from Asia should not deter the
Monetary Polity Committee
from squeezing the inflationary
pips out of consumers, they say.

That argument is true only up
to a point. In the real world, it is
impossible to ignore a death dive
in one sector of the economy
because ft will, eventually, drag
down others. For one thins,
manufacturing is a considerable
buyer of services. According to
fee National Institute of Eco¬
nomic and Social Research,
manufacturing buys as much as

20 per cent of all British services.
It is also likely feat recession in
manufacturing would, at some
stage, have a psychological im¬
pact an consumers. Britain may
now be predominantly a service
economy but British people still
accord disproportionate im¬
portance to manufacturing. Wid¬
get makers are still seen as more
crucial to the economic health of
fee nation than hairdressers.

A few banner headlines
proclaiming large redundancies
and company closures in our
iiriustrial heartlands would sim¬
ply reinforce the caution and
even fear that has come with the
flexible labour market.

In any case, as the British
Retail Consortium figures sug¬
gested yesterday, fee British
consumer is nothing like as
rampant as the inflation hawks
suggest. The risks for the econ¬
omy are, as economists are worn
to say, all on the downside.

Resale value

BANKS and insurers bought es¬
tate agents at the top of the market
to compete wife bunding societies.
But the Pru and others found
agencies were not just outlets but
businesses that could lose vast
sums in a slump. Lloyds TSB was
in first and bought sensibly.
Having bought a building society
instead, it would be ironic u
Lloyds sold its agencies at the top
of the market to another society
lender, Bradford & Bingley. that
wants to boost its market share.

Laporte prefers deals
to share buybacks

ByCarl Mortlshed

JIM LENG, chief executive of
Laporte, yesterday said the
company would use its cash-
rich balance sheet to buy new
businesses rather than buy
back shares. - "

Laporte yesterday im¬
pressed fee City wife a 14 per
cent rise in profit from contin¬
uing businesses, adjusted 1 for
constant currencies.- At the
pre-taxievel profits were up 4
per cent to £132 million, Or 12
per. cent at constant currencies
in the year to December 31.

Laporte’s drastic restructur¬
ing and a sharp squeeze on
working capital has left fee
group rash-rich. wife a net
£130 million -in funds: Mr
Leng said the group would be
spending, the equiVafaSt of ,9'
per cent of safe ;da-capital
expenditure and would seek td -

buy businesses wife leader¬
ship positions, suitable for . fee
“Laporte treatment”. He said:
“We are not short of ideas.”

Mr Long raid that Laporte^
restructuring was largely xom-
piece, having aripeved its tar¬
get of 15. per cent operating
margins and 25 per cent return
on capital one' year ahead of
Schedule. He has imposed new
targets-by adding twb-and-^
half paints to each measure.

Currency , translation . re-
ducedsalesby £57 rnfltian and
profits by £10 million during
fee period. Mr Leng said La-
parte's exposure to Asian anv
mofl was limited, wife only 4
per cent of sales and profits
comaig from outside fee US
and Europe,; : •..'■'%*

■ The chief executive:* arrival
at Laporte in 1995 was followed

by. a profits warning and
heavy restructuring charge
feat hit the share price. Mr
Leng said the margin im¬
provement was not exclusively
cost-related. “There is an de¬
ment of slash and burn. We
reduced our head office staff
from 180 to 60. We have
jettisoned products where the
market would not pay a decent
price.” He pointed to volume
growth- of 7 per cent in
speaality chemicals.

I*i»rte is ratcheting up inv¬
estment levels, wife research
arid development spend up 20
per cent on the previous year.
Capital expenditure was twice
fee rate of depredation last
year and a new R&D laborat¬
ory for fee fine chemicals,
business is expected to open
this year. Some £20 miltion

IMI encouraged
by strong orders

ByPaulDurman

has been invested in a new
compounding facility. Mr
.Leng said fee estimated £30
million cash investment re¬
structuring programme had
already been recouped, leav¬
ing fee cash cost to sharehold¬
ers at nfl. Laporte ended fee
year with nil gearing and £130
million of net cash.

Laporte’s speciality organics
division rasjed profits by 23
per cent to £24 million during
fee period, while pigments
showed a rise of just 3 per cent
to £33 milion. Laporte's com¬
pounds and electronic chemi¬
cals business managed an 8
per cent rise in profit to £44
million wife growth picking
up in printed rircuitboard
chemicals in Taiwan. _

Tempos, page 30

IML fee manufacturing
group, is confident of achiev¬
ing farther growth this year in
spue of a “flat" UK economy.

Gary Alien, chief executive
of fee company, based in
Binmnghara. said that order
books were particularly
strong on the Continent and
in die US, which together
account for more than half fee
group’s £1.4 billion of annual
rales. Germany's economy
was “noticeably improving".

IML whose products in¬
clude radiator valves, drink
dispensers and pneumatic
equipment; was reporting a 63
per cent rise in underlying pre¬
tax profits, to £1465 million,
for 1997. Sterling’s strength
cost IMI about £20 million,
but fee group was keen not to
make too much of this, point¬
ing out tiiat this was largely
offset by £18.9 nriDion of prof¬
its from five acquisitions. Mr

Allen said IMI was planning
on the basis of a DM3 pound.

Hie shares rase 9p, to
459hp. Paul Compton, ana¬
lyst with Merrill Lynch, said
that he was astonished that
they had not risen further. He
said that IMI's strategy of
buying good products and
using its distribution network
to increase sales meant that
“fee buy argument is virtually
faultless”. He added: “This is
fee next Siebe. It has that sort
of security to it”

The fluid power division
gave the best performance, lift¬
ing its profits by 25 percent to
£38 milKon. Drinks dispensers
lifted profits to £35.7 mflikm
(E33.8 million), equal to a 14 per
cent rise before currency effects;

An 8 Jrp final payout to be a
foreign income dividend, lifts
the total 7.7 per cent to 14p..

Temp us, page 30

Close shares rise
after 30% profit

By Richard Miles, banking correspondent

SHARES in Dose Brothers,
the independent merchant
bank, rose nearly 7 per cent
yesterday after it reported a 30
per cent increase in first-half
profits to £36.7 million.

The price of the shares,
which has doubled in the past
year, rose 45p to 726^ after
the company said market
making, corporate finance
and factoring had all done
extremely well during fee six
months to January 31.

Corporate finance proved
particularly strong, as the
bank completed 26 deals wife
a value of £2 billion, including
fee £700 million sale of Wil¬
liam Hill, the bookmaker, to
Nomura. It would be difficult
to repeat this performance in
the second half, it said.

Dealing income at fee mar¬
ket making business.
Winterfloods, rose 18 per cent
to E24 million. On the equity

side, fee bank had “weathered
the October 1997 squall" to
benefit from improved condi¬
tions in the New Year.

Strong competition took the
shine of its asset finance
business, which grew 13 per
cent, while Prompt, fee insur¬
ance premium financing busi¬
ness, struggled against a
difficult market and falling
commercial premiums.

Rod Kent, fee chairman,
said he was confident Dose
Brothers had access to suffi¬
cient capital to see it through
the next expansion period. Its
two biggest shareholders. Cal¬
edonia Investments wife 25
per cent and Prudential with
11 percent, fully supported fee
business, he said.

Mr Kent hinted at some
small acquisitions, but said
there was nothing imminent.

Tempos, page 30

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Tim Heiy Hutchinson said record profits were achieved in an uneven market

ITM Heiy Hutchinson, chief
executive of Hodder Head¬
line, the publishers, forecast
yesterday feat fee British
leading public should have
access to between 20 .and 30
“superstore" bookshops with¬
in the next feree years
[Raymond Snoddy writes).

With such stores fikdy tp

stock - more than 100,000
books and the first superstore
in Glasgow already trading
well Mr Hdy Hutchinson is
expecting a continuing boost
to book sales:

The Hodder Headline doeS
executive-was speaking as the
co m p an y announced record
pre-tax profits of £82 mflikm

■ the All-Share Tracking PEP
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behind those that were pub¬
lished. Mr Heiy Hutchinson
said the record results were
achieved in uneven market
comditiofis.

The Hodder Headline
share price rose l4p to 239p.
City analysts now expect pre¬
tax profits of around £9.5
million for the current year.

Hodder Headline; whose
tales range from fee memoirs
of Sir Edward -Heath and
Dickie Kid, the cricket um¬
pire, to the fiction of Tom
Clancy and Dean. Koontz,
said yesterday tiiat the torrent
year had started well wife UK
booksellers continuing to re-

area for
Hodder is school textbooks
with, according to Mr Hdy
Hutchinson, only £30 a year
on average being spent on
each secondary school pupfl, ;

“This is bad for our busi¬
ness and it is also bad for
children’s education, - he said.

Gamings per share were
I5iip (132^, tote-fop-like pub¬
lishing sales rose from £86.4
mflbo n to £91.6 mflikm and
the dividend far the year will
be 72p ( 6 J# after payment of
a 5.0p final.

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THE TIMES TUESDAY MARCH iO 1998

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SHARE prices on the London
stock market clawed back
above the 5300 level after
Wall Street shrugged off
another profits warning from
one of its high-tech leaders.

The bears were soon on the
run after another drop in
industrial and manufacturing
output that reduced the pros¬
pect of interest rate rises,
evidence of a large "buy-
programme and a welter of
upbeat trading statements.

The sell-off in New York
that had been expected to
follow Friday’S profits warn¬
ing from Compaq never
materialised. This helped to
underpin sentiment in the City
and enabled share prices to
close on a high note.

The FTSE 100 index, after
suffering a brief hiccup, even¬
tually dosed just below its best
of the day with a rise of 36.0 at
5J31S.9. Turnover was on the
low side with 733 million

Mike Hardy, left, and Kevin McDonald saw a modest
rise in Polypipe profit despite higher raw material costs

shares changing hands.

The halt of £175 billion

merger talks with Welters
Kluwer left Reed Internation¬
al nursing a fail of 57p at 620p.
Brokers had high hopes of
Reed creating one of the
biggest publishers in Europe
if the deal had gone ahead.

Claims that Reed will now
turn its guns on rival Pear¬
son, owner of Financial Times
and Penguin publishing,
appear wide of the mark.
Pearson shares touched £10.08
before ending 49p dearer at a
new high of 992p. They were
cheered by comments from
Deutsche Morgan Grenfell
the broker, which takes the
view that Pearson is die main
growth play in the sector.

Halifax rose 5h.p ex-divi¬
dend to 925p after confirming
plans to launch a £780 million
bid for Birmingham Mid¬
shires Building Society which
is already the subject of an ag¬
reed bid from the Royal Bank
of Scotland, up 32p at 935p.

■ City speculators had been
counting on Halifax using
some of its £4 billion surplus
cash to launch a bid for
Norwich Union. Norwich
touched 434p before rallying
to finish I7p better at 515p
ahead of its first results since
going public, due out today.

Merrill Lynch, the broker, is
taking a cautious short-term
view of Whitbread, lp lighter
at £10.11. downgrading its
recommendation for the
shares from “accumulate" to
"neutral". It continues to buy
the shares for the longer term.

British Energy was in an
upbeat mood, telling brokers

that profits for the year to
March 31 would exceed bro¬
kers' forecasts. The shares
responded with a leap of 23p to
454p. The news comes just a
week after National Power,
down 7p at 5774 p. issued a
profits warning linked to the
ending of the coal-backed
sales contract
AAF Industries rose 4p to
344p after news of share¬

buying by several directors.
Michael Smithyman, chair¬
man, has bought 100.000
shares {0.43 per cent) at 35p.
Another director has picked
up 15,000 shares at 35p.

Speculattve buying hoisted
Manx & Overseas 1* profit p.
Desmond Land, the former
chairman of Premier Land,
has been appointed chairman
and managing director of the

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weekend between Opec
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duced another oil sell-off on
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North Sea Brent crude
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Oil shares came under
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WH S mith firmed 10hp to
5Q34p after confirming plans
to pay £68 million for rival
John Merries’ retailing arm
which went up for sale in
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sponded with a jump of 13p to
441 bp.

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through loud and dear at
Pace Micro Technology as
die price surged 5p to 44 1 zp-
Face is one of six companies to
be awarded the contract to
supply British Digital Broad¬
casting with set-top boxes. The
pace share price collapsed
from a peak of 235p last year
after a profits warrung.

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at Polypipe was the excuse for
investors to take profits with
shares in the building supplies
group finishing 8^ cheaper
at 177p. The company, where
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director and Kevin McDonald
executive chairman, said the
profits increase had been
achieved despite further rises
in raw material costs.

Rnberoid. which has dis¬
posed of its Biyan McCann
subsidiary for £3 million,
finned lbp to 83p as 1SH
Capital the privately owned
Canadian company, increased
its holding with the purchase
of a further 500,000 shares. It
takes ISH*s total holding in
the company to 427 million, or
8-86 per cent

Details of a £15 million
contract from Welsh Water to
build storm overflows, provid¬
ed a lOpfifip at 235p to TUbnry
Doughs. The construction
company is due to unveil
results later this week.

□ GILT-EDGED: Bond pri¬
ces scored gains of more than
Eb, drawing strength freon the
latest industrial output num¬
bers which reflected the im¬
pact of the strong pound on
manufacturers.

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ing gains among US treasury
bonds enabled prices in
London to dose near their besr
of the day.

In the futures pit, the June
series of the long gilt dosed £>2
better at Elu7 *'m, while
among conventional issues
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also rose £** to £109*32.

□ NEW YORK: Shares rose
in morning trading despite the
market bong hounded early
on by Compaq Computers
warning on first-quarter earn¬
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IMI is an unfashionable company and
engineering is an inadequate description of its
activities; which include making heating
boilers, soft drinks dispersers and the
pneumatic parts of industrial handling sys¬
tems. Perhaps that is why shares in this well-
regarded group sit, modestly, an less than 14
times forecasts of this year's earnings.

IMI has had a busy couple of years, buying
half a dozen businesses, and selling or closing
even more- The benefits are not immediately
apparent from the latest results, which show
only a .6.5 per cent rise in pre-tax profits.

Beneaih the surface, there axe signs that
IMI has hit on a promising strategy to unite
its three and a half divisions: specialist
products with strong market positions that
are able to benefit from the group’s strengths
in (fistribution- Special engineering is the

division that only counts haft, because the
component companies do not fit mis profile.

Some idea of what IMI can do can be seen
from Heimrier. the German radiator valve
busi ness, which has increased its exports by
more than third since it was nought two
years ago. Wfishire, thefruifjuiQedispenKr
maker tnal^was one of last yeart purchases, is
also said to have seen a 40 per amt rise m

A rising tax charge may hold ba de ear nings
cwwrii thin ywar- hm the continuing strength of
the US and the recovery in the German

. ■_lJ TK4T M moVo C1W1

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eaHitany should arable IMI to make El&o
milli on, or about 32p of eamings per shue.
The shares; up to 458Vip. have already had a
good run over file past three months, but IMPS
m anagem ent have a dependable fed that
moires thg stock a decent long-term investment.

CMG

THIS time last year, when
CMG shares were about £10,
miserable investment tipsters
were urging investors to hold
or selL A year teter, they’re
still at it cut tite shares axe
worth more than £23.

Even CMG’s management
seem uneasy at the unrelent¬
ing rise in the share price.
Another danger signal is that
the company's recent acqui¬
sitions have been at prices
nowhere near the ratings
accorded the quoted stocks'
in the UK's information tech¬
nology sector. .If informed
buyers and sellers of comput¬
er services companies are
able to strike deals at reason¬
able prices, why should stock
market investors be willing
to pay outrageous
premiums?

According to Chris Banks,
CMG’S finance director,
present levels of growth are

unsustainable for the next
ten years. This_ doesn't stop
investors drooling over h£s
company: very little of the
business is dependent on
either cross-border trade
(vulnerable to exchange rate
fl uctuati ons! or the nuUenni-
rnn bug and EMU. -
The shares may receive
annthw boost from the
bonus issue — much of die

stock is still in the bands of
employees. But given the
current hysterical ratings,
the tiniest hint of bad news
will send the price plummet¬
ing. Mr Baziks knows this,
but then, he and most of the
co mpan y's employees seed
not fear a return to rational
pricing. They probably
bought , their shares when
they were £20 cheaper.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

1C

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shara price j—v"

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Laporte

There are qualms that Jim
Leng’s regime at Laporte has
been more blunderbuss than
new broom. Laporte has
removed about 40 per cent of
its staff along with a third of
group sales. That land of
attrition, if keenly targeted,
will Inevitably raise operat¬
ing margins. Sure enough.
Laporte has met its targets of
15 per cent return, on sales
and 25 per cent return on.,
capital, a year ahead of
schedule.

Mr Leng emphatically be¬
lieves Laporte can continue
this improvement. He has
added 2 h points to each of
his profitability targets, but
he can be under no illusion
that the hard task lies ahead.
Laporte has little farleft to cut
and generating margin im¬
provement from sales is more
difficult than sacking people
— albeit better for morale.'

Nevertheless. Laporte de- -
serves foe benefit of foe
doubt Its figures suggest
that real volume growth is

there, if patchy. Both fine
chemicals and compounds
and electronics, managed to
grow sales arm'd all- foe
retrenching and cutting. The
test will be in fine chemicals,
a prime example of the sort of
specialist defensible busi¬
ness where Laporte sees its
future producing compo¬
nents for new drugs and
agro-dremicaTproducts. The
tnck is securing foe contracts
.from foe big pharma-groups.

A bet on Laporte Is not
expensive—it is on a market
rating. Speciality chemicals
have enjoyed a re-rating but
Laporte has been left benindL

Close Bros

BIG may be beautiful but
small can be splendid." Just
ask Close Brothers, foe inde¬
pendent merchant bank.
While bigger rivals-like
Barings ana Morgan Gren¬
fell have been brought to
their knees by a senes of
scandals, Close Brothers has
prospered. And howl Five
years ago, the bank's stock

was worth little more than
£1.60. Yesterday, Close
Brothers broke through the
£7 level, taking, its market
value to £800 inulion.

Investors must ask them¬
selves whether the stock can
sustain- this growth, given
that Close Brothers is no
longer tile minnow it pnoe
was. Certainly, te underlying
business appears sound. Two
of its three core markets —
corporate finance for mid¬
caps and marker making —
are in rude health, while
asset finance is an a steady
keel

Close Brother's prospects
will depend to a greater ex¬
tent on whether it can contin¬
ue to run foe business as if it.
were still small: tire bank es¬
sentially comprises a duster
’ of businesses, each employ¬
ing no more than 100 staff—
businesses you can get your
anti around, as Rod Kent,
chairman, described them
yesterday. The record justi¬
fies continued holding.

Edited by Paul Durman

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THE TIMES TUESbAV-M'ARCH IO 1098

ANALYSIS 31

Labour pains over the future of PFI

T he Private Finance Initi-
^ve (PFI) ranks aW

QHg a?**
m ?. congestion and"'

2™*** English cricket .
tew oompefmve as one of

te^^eroryoneism

K r * but "O can actu-

^ree a way fonranf. Rff
U* Government. PR is a
of carrying out vital in-

^Jructure projects without.,
rf ma f^g tire pubfic sector ba-
?nce sheet For the consfruc-
hon and business services see-
Iors ’ n means juicy long-term
rontracts. Even the C5ty lends
finite full support, eagerly
anticipating healthy advisoity .
jees and cnomtission-generat-
m §; finance-raising work.

Yei it appears hard to
believe that, five years after die
launch of the PFI, the partici¬
pants are still struggling to get
the formula right PFI-styte
projects have provided a total
of E&5 billion of funding
during this period — well '

of'
this

"short of rije original
£14 .Milan hy die end
ajmingfinaiidalyear. ...

If political wifl^wwer alone
was encaigfa . to ensure die
success trf.PJ-T t *en the Gov=-
erafoenf rshnuld by bow 1 be
reaping the rewards, of the
inioatrve,. The. new. Govern-,
naeni has. taken to PFI with all
the aeaFaf a convert, employ¬
ing all is, fr y now, trademark
te^inigoes to try totfosh die
project ^ong. ffrst. diere was
. foe policy review. Now there is
the PH taskforce, led/by die
compulsory private sector re¬
cruit — in this case. Adrian

Mcnfague, fonner head of

intmtamtoalprosect financeat
Dresdner Kleniwort Benson.-.

" ."Yet stHI foe PFI stubbornly
refuses to achieve lift-off. Lab¬
our claims to. have, sighed PFI :
projects valued at £1.5 trillion
—hanfiy a big advance on the
Conservative record and a tiny
fraction of total public infra¬
structure speeding. -

The PH gremflri:
forks deep in the sys-
tent-.One of the prin¬
ciple attractions of
PH is that it shares
the burden of risk be¬
tween foe risk-averse
public sector and die
risk-taking private
sector. Toe 'private
sector wants to get
deals signed quickly,.
working on the baas
that although a few mistakes
wifl be made on die way it is
bener to keep generating hew
business. Whitehall arrives at
the negotiating table, with a
different agenda. Its main task
is seen as ensuring that no
public money is wasted. Civil
servants will run up to 400 se¬
parate risk models tor any pro¬
ject before deriding to "proceed.
PFI agreements run to hun¬

dreds of pages of
law. technicalspeci¬
fications and design
requirements, so it
ts not too surprising
to find that big proj¬
ects can take up to
three years to be for¬
malised.

ifor die Civil Ser¬
vice, PFI represents
only a fraction of
total e xp e nd i t ur e of
a government department and

the job. is normally left to a
mid-ranker. The high-flyers
are channelled into jpoOcy-
maidng — devising all those
Ideas that look so great an
paper — like the PFI. The
private sector is left complain¬
ing that the Government's PH
managers ar wanu ty not upto
the complexity of the task.

In foe near terra, the change

of Government has not
helped. The last Government
established a trade record in
road and prson PFI deals,
reducing the rime taken to
agree prison PFI projects, for
instance, to around nine
months- Prisms and roads are

not Labour priorities so White¬
hall has had to start the whole
process of establishing ten>
plates, especially for health'
and education, all over again
Deadlines are in danger of
slipping, leaving the CSiy muF-
tering mat it is not convinced
Labour is entirety committed
to taking PR forward. The
City's own co mmi tment levels
rests solely on the belief that a
few loss-making new projects
will result in a flood of
revenue-generating projects in
die future.

If the Government is realty
determined to make things
work long term, it faces two
stark didoes. It can either try
to tackle the Whitehall culture

that hampers foe completion
of projects, encouraging the
Civil Service to see PFI
projects as a genuine priority
and allocate foe right people to
the job, or it must put flesh on
its broader commitment to
public/private partnerships.

Joint-venture projects would
allow the Government to tack¬
le the larger projects in one go
and put more onus on the
private sector to find die
requisite finance, complete the
deals and absorb the risks.
Hie word is that the Govern¬
ment is inclined towards this
approach for reviving the
London Underground. How¬
ever. joint ventures stray dan¬
gerously into the more
politically sensitive area of
privatisation and Labour will
risk antagonising some of its
own support. The PFI remains
one of those good ideas, but to
work, the Government will
have to finally make one of its
fabled tough choices.

Fresh thinking offers flexible
approach to pensions problem

Any scheme
should offer
scope to help
the poorest,
says Tony
Christopher

T he consultation,papas
on both stakeholder
pensions and individ¬
ual savings accounts
(Isas) lead me unco m fortably to
the conclusion thatneither real¬
ly approaches peopleVfature
needs in die best way—certam-'
ty not in a way fikety to her
acceptable, let alone attractive.

The all too obvious weak¬
nesses in the Isa proposals have
already been widely publicised.
What is missing is a dear ac-.
knowledgement that there
might, indeed should, be prov¬
ision for a link between Isas
and whatever is to come an sup-
plementary pensions, if Isas are
not seen as laying a trial for re- .-
rirement age pnmsfoq.jfoey are
a bad mistake.;. .'•! '

The Isa and.stakeholder pen-.^
sions are aimed broadly at a
large proportion of the same
market the II million people
who are ream, an employer's or
a personal pension scheme and
who are. in the main, the less
well paid. It is drfficult to.
bnagbtetotomanyoffoemwSL
be able to afford to contribute to
both. And it is not at all dear,
given National Savings and
other existing savings schemes, .
how the whole expensive para¬
phernalia of an Isa is justified.
Peps and Tessas, revised as
may be, could as well continue;

But it is necessary to chall¬
enge the desiraMityofso narr¬
ow a concept , as a stakeholder
pension. The time has Surety
come to set aside such a convoy
tional approach and talk about
provirion for retirement' ■

The dear issue the UK Gov¬
ernment is faring is that it is no
longer affordable to oprate
base state pensions beyond inf¬
lation nor to see a future politi¬
cal wfl] to fill the consequent
needs gap for those who. in
their working lifetimes, could *
reasonably have made such a
provision for themselves.

What would not be helpful
would be a poor, draper subst¬
itute for occupational pension
schemes or employers with de-

When people retire they should not be r eq uir ed by law to buy an annuity, but at present tins is their only option

fined benefit pension schemes
w31, inevitably, be attracted to
switch —*s has been the expeo-
enoe in die US. The direct cont¬
ribution plans introduced in foe
US Revalue Act 1978 have led to
a phenomenal move away from
direct benefit plans — not least
because employers found them
much cheaper;

"What oar trade union move-
ment wiH resist; rightly, is any¬
thing that encourages employ¬
ers to wind up good existing oc¬
cupational schemes. There is al-
ready a move In that' direction.

Thus,while there could lord¬
ly be objection to voluntary
contributions beyond tbe mini-
mum (subject because of. tax
benefits, to a cap) what we
should be seeing to provide for
is enough money to give a
reasonable, but comfortable,
addition to the state pension for
those who. otherwise, will not
have that tinless the State
provides it ,' . .

7b accomplish das, campuF
rionwfil be unavoidable and 3
there is compulsion what is
required of people must be seen
fo be fair and attractive. It must
. not be. nor look Eke; taxation or
increased national insurance

contributions, which it easily
could do. To accept .tins at the
outset makes it easier to move
on with a different approach.

- So far only orthodox thinking
seems to have featured in what
would-be pension providers
have been saying, but, unless
we do something fresh^we shall
go on perpetuating the weak¬
nesses in whatWe have now.
We have to provide:

□ personal ownership, thus
providing fuflportabilhy within
theEU.

□ rodc-bottomcasts-

□ best value for money.

That is not what we have today
in pmsian schemes, so what
should be done differently?

. First, personal ownership,
ideally within a mutual fond, erf
an individual retirement sav¬
ings fond (IRSF)—afond. not a
pension scheme—with regular
reports of balances held.

Secondly, the abandonment
of the statu tory requirement to
buy an annuity as the only av¬
ailable course af.action on re¬
tirement Options that could be
offered instead include:

□ putting tiie accrued savings
in a personal retirement fund,
drawing down in; accordance

with statutory requirements,
which could include care in old
age subject perhaps to tax
considerations. On death such a
fund would form part of the
deceased’s estate. This would be
perceived as honest and attrac¬
tive by many. •

Q purchasing an annuity in the
usual way.

□ requiring everyone on retire¬
ment to pay to Government
Gnora their fond such a sum as is
required, by periodic actuarial
valuation. The Government
would be responsible for paying
a supplementary pension and
for inflation-proofing it This"
means the Government is as¬
sured about the citizen's minim¬
um income and because the
State is both insurer and payer
there are no regulation costs, no
private-sector profits to be met
and. assuming payment is with
the basic state pension, no extra
payment costs.

Any surplus in an individ¬
uals fund would be for the
individual to (to with as he or
she wished, or he or die could
be required to maintain a fund
for old-age care provision simi¬
lar to the personal retirement
fund outlined above. This -

means that all receive what they
put in (and what is put in for
than 3 employers contribute)
pfos'growth. What could be en¬
visaged, putting it simply, for a
40-year working life, is 30 or so
years o f equities and a progress¬
ive shift to lower-risk funds
nearer retirement.

This idea would enable an efT
ective contribution to individual
retirement needs a good deal
earlier than the present propos¬
als, benefiting the Treasury
without cost to the ririmn.

T he question erf which
employers, if any,
should contribute
compulsorily, and to
what extent, should be for disc¬
ussion. Looking at the reaction
to a minimum wage--even dis¬
counting the extent to which h is
over-reaction — the econ om ic
feet is probably that too many
small employers would find it
hard to afford. What is more, it
could be a strong disincentive to
extending tire provision of occu¬
pational schemes. Perhaps it"
would be wise to build in a
notional employers’ responsib¬
ility into the minimum wage;
that could offset some economic

effects of compulsory saving
and provide a basis for exempt¬
ing smaller businesses but in¬
cluding the rest

Similarly, it would be con¬
structive if the State made mod¬
est contributions to IRSFs dur¬
ing unemployment. There
should be full tax relief (capped)
on contributions from employee
and employer and an fund divi¬
dends, with taxable pensions.

One problem wfl] bite what¬
ever is done getting the regular
contribution from foe pay pack¬
et to the investment manager. It
is in this area that big costs
could arise, and when small
savings are being taken from
medium to low incomes mar¬
gins wiD be tight if charges are
not to swallow up savings.

This subject deserves a study
of its own. It is a troublesome
issue in respect of those without
bank accounts. There are de¬
lays now — some inevitable,
some not — in transferring
PAYE and national insurance
deductions to the Inland Reve¬
nue and Department of Social
Security. Even 3 we forget loss
of interest, how does a pension
account provider monitor re¬
ceipts? What happens 3 same
never arrive? Quite a few
employers default for one rea¬
son or another. And what about
the seff-employed?

It could well be the straw that
breaks a few private-sector
backs when it comes to offering
supplementary pensions ar¬
rangements—for the tranche of
people who need to be catered
for would be contributing the
small sums that most present
providers shun.

To conclude, neither Lloyd
George, nor anyone since, bias
put the ultimate pension system
in place. That is an understand¬
able feet, not a criticism. These
proposals at least provide al¬
most limitless flexibility in a
world of work that is rapidly
dunging. However, before any
decisions are taken on what is
understood to be an almost
overwhelming volume of evid¬
ence received, it would be prud¬
ent for tile Prime Minister to
ask a committee drawn from a
range of relevant specialisms to
assess what it would be best to
do. We are malting plans (inesc¬
apably controversial) for needs
almost half a century ahead. No
scheme since Lloyd George has
survived that long.

□ The author is Chairman cfTU
Fund Managers, a former presi¬
dent of the TUC and general
secretary of the Inland Reve¬
nue Staff Federation.

n agreeable place to work
B must be. Not only has Sir
Goodisori, deputy chair-
ded a £5.2 million paper
m his share options. but ;
retry generous with special
t seems from the report anti
Sir Nicholas is keen on old
I barometers, and he will be
ford quite a few when he
iis options and retires. This.
e too far off, either, because
md this exercise of almost

780*000 share options has a deck-
. dealing look to it. The bulk of them..
546.000. d ate-b ack -to -1989, when
. Uqyds.andTSB were as yet asunder,
and have to : be exercised within ten
years or they lapse.

I am unable to ask the great man
■ what he plans to (fo with the money,
and it would, 1 suppose, be an
impertinence. *T don’t think he wfl]
speak about a personal decision
anyway,” Uayds TSB tells me. Also,
doing well is Sir Simon Hornby, who
gets a £50,000 special bonus lor ins
"considerable efforts” as chairman qf
Itoyds Abbey life for five and a half
'years until the bank bought in foe
minority shares. A period during
"which hewas paid aswdL erf course,
There is, alas, no indication of the
huge payoff Lloyds TSB is going to
have to award Andrew Longhurst,
former boss of the Cheltenham &
Gloucester, when he goes next
month: Tint wifl have to waft until
foe 1998 account. But I have heard a
figure of £2 million mentionoL. ’•

has called a general meeting of mem¬
bers — wifl they wear their jackets
and shout at each other, I wonder?

The board has decided to “review
its premises requireme n ts'* and look
for “the most cost-effective solution",
which looks like a bit of fence-sitting
put in to mollify those who do not
much care for a move to Spitalfields.
A decision not to go there would be
an enormous U-turn. Daniel
Hodson, Line's chief executive, says:
“It doesn’t mean we’re proposing not
to proceed with the Spitalfields
project. It’s very much a possibility."
Sounds like a definite maybe, I say,
teasing. He bats ft straight back. “Iris
a definite maybe."

Mail shot

THE LAWYER has sent a postcard to
various City law firms in an attempt
to drum up advertising. It features a
familiar, black and white shot of Ilidi
Ramirez Sanchez, the international
terrorist better known as Carlos the
Jackal “Murders & Executions," it
says under the picture. Crossed out,
substituted with the words “Mergers
& Acquisitions". Who said lawyers
have no sense of humour? On second
thoughts, I prefer them without one.

Martin Waller

brings to mind the famous remarks
of Emperor Hirohito, conceding de¬
feat after Hiroshima and Nagasaki:
The war situation has developed,
not necessarily to Japan's ad¬
vantage."

“OK. there’s somebody y

dsebutitsnotsenous:

n Soa&t&.Ginimlehas deemed this
an appropriate time to start securi¬
ties trading in South Korea. I Wee the
understated way SocGen refers to the
mattes there: “Although tkeKore-
an. economy. is currently going
through an adjustment process.-”. It

‘ SIGNS that the split ts deepening at
Uffe between: the modernisers and
the traditionalists. Then: are those
who would rely on a super new com¬
puterised trading system at a- super
new btniding at Spitalfields, and
"those who rafter enjoy the current
set-up whereby a huddle erftestoster-
one-fodled males in bright blazers
shout at each .other. The Life board

D IT SEEMS Ottakafs, the rather
splendid chain of bookstores now
coming to the market, was put to¬
gether in someone's lunch hour at
Warburg*, because this is where
Philip Dunne, chairman, was work¬
ing more than ten years ago when he
was approached for help by a long¬
standing friend, James Heneage.
Both putm an unspecified amount
of money, worth considerably more
today. (Heneage will hot say how
much of the £30 million the company
is valued at is his, and seems to think

he can get away without saying so as
the float progresses; he will learn).

Hard to imagine Warburg*. ten
years ago.was so relaxed a place That
you could cheerfully put together
your own deals in your spare time.
But it seems it was.

W&2 M MAgKiErare

"V.sfj''' •.

Stark warning
for corporate
hospitality

T he Gold Cup favourite
at Chehenbam is
called See More
Money. This is imnk since,
if the scaremongers are to be
believed, this might be the
last time scores of com¬
panies choose to entertain
their business contacts at
one of the corporate hospi¬
tality events of the year.

The instant reaction to the
Law Commission’s recom¬
mendations for new laws to
tackle foe abuse of corporate
hospitality (70 per cent of its
recommendations become
law) was that companies
might be reluctant to in¬
dulge in this style of market¬
ing in tiie future.

But die caterers who
make a lulling from corpo¬
rate entertaining should not
rush to pack up their tents.
The- commission's plans to
punish bribery are primari¬
ly. though not exclusively,
aimed at public servants. If
private companies abide by
some fundamental rules
they can happily entertain
safe in the knowledge that
the fraud squad will not
come knocking on the door.

Firstly, as long as senior
management of a company
is aware of and consents to
its employees bring enter¬
tained. then there should be
no grounds for allegations
of corruption.

But perhaps the most
important reason why the
changes should not have a
significant impart (hi the
marketing industry is be¬
cause corporate hospitality
is rardy used for securing
new customers bat. instead,
for retaining existing ones.

In the Law Commission's
eyes, btniding stronger links
with existing business part¬
ners (or using corporate
hospitality as a means of
obtaining useful informa¬
tion about a c ompan y) is a
legitimate business practice,
lie commission seeks to
stop companies, and in par¬
ticular public bodies, from
using lavish incentives or
“sweeteners" to gain new
business. The difference be¬
tween inviting a prospective
customer to a day-pigeon
shoot and, on the other
hand, sending him plane
tickets and keys to year viHa
in Corfu could be between
that of respectability and a
spell in Ford Open Prison.
"Iris going to be a question
of degree. That's how it's
going to be judged," says
Charles Webb, chairman of
the Corporate Hospitality &
Event Association.

The line between hospital¬
ity and what constitutes brib¬
ery is far from straight The

commission openly recog¬
nises the difficulty of enforc¬
ing such a law, and says that
only foe most blatant cases
will be prosecuted.

Even sa tiie very threat of
such measures reminds us
starkly of what is at stake
were corporate hospitality to
be severely curtailed. Apart
from depriving executives of
regular doses of cold salm¬
on, it would be a serious
blow to an industry just
beginning to grow after foe
recession. But just bow
much of a loss would it be to
the UK companies that
spend £500 million annually
on entertainment?

A recent survey of 260
blue chip companies, car¬
ried out by market research
company Total Research,
found 66 per cent of respon¬
dents failed to assess the
effectiveness of their corpo¬
rate hospitality. One top car
manufacturer spends
£500,000 taking the fleet
managers of big companies
to 90 events a year. Yet, ft
cannot tefl you if its guests
preferred horse trials at
Badminton to motor racing
at SUverstone, or 3 the
person who attended the
event really was the right
person to influence. For
many companies "research"
is a quick phone call to see if
the guest had a good time.

But despite the lack of
effective monitoring, many
companies believe that
meeting customers face to
face in convivial surround¬
ings helps business.

“At the end of the day,
people do business with
people and not just tiie
companies they represent,"
says Randle Stonier, man¬
aging director of Motiforce.
one of the largest organisers
of events. "Iris much easier
to address certain issues
when you are sharing a
drink with someone."

R obin Coles, managing
director erf Show Pre¬
sentation Services,
which rents out audio-visual
equipment, spends £16,000 a
year on a box at Richmond
Rugby Clubu Lunch and a
chance to mix with tiie
players is part of the pack¬
age. "Our selling print is our
people, and the box gives us
tiie ideal opportiutity to
thank clients and give them
a good time," says Mr Coles.

* As long as it remains just
that, the business commun¬
ity can continue to market
itself with a glass of cham¬
pagne in one hand and a
dear conscience in the other.

Julian Lee

Carlos the Jackat chilling
mail shot from The Lawyer

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32 BUSINESS NEWS

Generate des Eaux
submits merger
proposal to Havas

COMPAGNIE GenSrale des
Eaux. the French - conglomer¬
ate, yesterday moved to take
over Havas, the media group,
completing the first stage of an
ambitious plan to become an
international communications
group.

After months of speculation.
Jean-Marie Messier, 41, the
chairman of Generate des
Eaux, submitted plans for a
merger to the boards of both
companies. Havas sharehold¬
ers. who look certain to ap¬
prove the proposals at a
general meeting to be called
within the next two months,
will receive a dividend of Frl07
(£ 10 } per share.

Last year. Generate des
Eaux took a 30 per cent stake
in Havas, which in turn has a
dominant 34 per cent stake in
Europe's biggest pay-TV com¬
pany. Canal Plus,

Yesterday’s move will be
decisive in the transformation
of the conglomerate from a

f. a®.

From Adam Sage in Paris

construction and environment
service business into a group
focused on the media and
telecommunications industry.

The company will employ
more than 230.000 people and
have an annual turnover of
about Fr220 billion, with a
quarter of its income from its
communications arm.

Pierre Dauzier. the chair¬
man of Havas, will step down
and be replaced by a dose
associate of M Messier. Eric
Li coys.

The takeover of the 163-year-
old Havas, the world's fifth
biggest media company with a
turnover of Fr513 billion, was
imposed by M Messier as part
of his drive to create a vertical¬
ly integrated media group.
This will combine Canal Pius
with Havas’s publishing inter¬
ests and Gfcterale des Eaux’s
telecommunications business.

The move will be followed
closely by BT. the French
conglomerate's partner in

Cegetel, the telecommunica¬
tions subsidiary aiming to
control 20 per cent of the
French market by the end of
the decade.

The deal will also interest
British advertising agencies,
with Havas's subsidiary,
Havas Advertising, the
world's eighth biggest agency,
looking to merge with “an
.Anglo-Saxon partner”.

Havas's travel agency
chain. Havas Voyages, is like¬
ly to be sold to Amex of the
United States.

Analysts say M Messier's
plan is a spectacular gamble
designed to create what one
described as a “European
Time Warner**.

Although there Is some
scepticism over M Messier’s
chances of revolutionising a
company that has specialised
in water treatment his reput¬
ation as the “golden boy" of
French business has helped to
silence many of the doubters .

Duncan Davidson, left and John White, chief executive, believer dial Persimmon isweH placed to build market share

Persimmon aims to build position

PERSIMMON, one of Brit¬
ain's largest residential bufld-
ere. yesterday announced
record pre-tax profits in 1997
and warned its competitors
that it was io its best condition
ever to win market share
(Kathy Upari writes).

Profits rose S3 per cent to
£50.5 million before tax after

the company boosted its oper¬
ating margins by a fifth to 11.8
per cent Duncan Davidson,
chairman, said operating
margins in the current year
were up about IS per cent on
the same tune a year ago.

He said *T befieve that
Persimmon is in the strongest
position in its history. We have

national coverage, an excel¬
lent Landbank, a fine range of
homes and a very strong.man¬
agement team.”

- The company sold. 6321
homes during the year, up
from 6,008 in 1996, resulting
in a sak$ increase of 17 per
cent to £523.1 million.

However. Mr Davidson

THE TIMES TUESDAY MARCH IQ 1998

C&RP soars

82% to a
record £Ilm

ByCarlMort&hcd

PROFITS at Capital & Region¬
al Properties surged 82-per
cent to a record £ 11.1 million
after a year in whi ch it was
transformed into, a specialist
retail and leisure property
group. . .

Martin. Barber, chairman,

said the rapid pace of deals Idt

Capital with opportunities to
add significant value but he
gave warning that "the market
itseif is not advancing af the
pat* which n has aver the last
couple of years".

Capital’s net asset valueper
share at December 31 rose 28
per cent to 272p after an 11 per
cent rise in'the val ue of its
investment . portfolio. The
company acquired £207 mil-
aced to build market share lion of retail property and sold

£577 million of assets. Mr
• « • Barber said that fivie {Shopping

*1 jrVM centres bought last summer
UUdlUUlX gained 6 per cent in value
Jl • during the six months under

persimmon bad consid- ; Capital's own ership .
erabie scope to increase mar- Operating prc&s rose from
ket share from Its current levd £5.6 million to £6.1 rnUfion
of 43 per cent in the hew after a 60 per cent ri se m gross
homes m ar k** rents. Pre-tax profits benefited

Earnings rose 40 per cent to from £43 million of profits
2L3p a share: A final dividend from disposals. The dividend
of 63p lifts the total to lOp for tile year is up 17 percent to
from 93p in 1996. The shares 33 p after a 30 per cent gain in
rose 5*ap to 247p. - earnings to 153p. \

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Hall Engineering
focuses on Asia

-SHARES in Hall Engineering rose 15h p to 194p after die
' group said it was ready.to plunge into the choppy Asian
markets in the search for growth. Richard Hall, the
chairman, believes .there are opportunities in Singapore
arid Hong Kong, in particular. Otherwise, he said,

- conditions remain difficult zri many of its markets and the
tough competitive environment coupled with continuing
currency fluctuations, posed ar big challenge.

- Hall raised pretax profits from £13 millio n to £183
milli on' on sate, down from £230.6 million to £209.9
‘ miDion, in die year to December 31. Earnings rose from
20.98p to 28-55p and the dividend from I0.Q2p to 10.4p. The
foil in tuTrinVer reflects a programme of disposals. Mr Hail
said tbetbree-year pr ogr am me of reshaping the group has
largely been completed. . .

Readymix 45% increase

READYMIX. the building materials company based in the
■Irish Republic, increased its pretax profits 45 per cent,
to Ir£lZ 6 mfllkm (£103 million), in 1997.The company said
that an “unparalleled level of construction activity" in the
Republic, Northern Ireland and-the fsie of Man had been
driven by the buoyant economy and favourable weather
conditions throughout the year. Earnings per share rose 31
per cent, to Irl938p. A final dividend of lr3.7p lifts foe total
. to lifo21p a share; from;lr43p.

Tay trading profit up

TAY HOMES, the housebuilder* raised its trading profits
by 27 per cent to £13milltem the six months to the end of
December. Pretax profits fed from £4.27 million to £2.76
million because-of a previous half-year disposal. Sales fell
from £503 million to £50.16 million although the average
price of hs houses rose from £77300 to £86300. The
dividend rises from 1.7p to )3p out of normalised earnings
up from 3-Op to 4.0p. The group has been aide to increase its
land bank to 4.250 plots, slightly higher than last year.

Polypipe confident

POLYPIPE, the buikfing materials group, raised pretax
profits 62 per cent to £12 mififon in the half year to end
December on sales up 28 per centto £120 milliod. Earnings
rase 32 per cent to 4.30p and foe half-year dividend rose 12
per cent to 1.03p. The shares fen 8*2 p to \Tto after Kevin
M cD on al d , chairman, said: "The group balance sheet is
robust and from tins strong base we are, overall, in less
thanbuoyant conditions, confident of yet another satisfac¬
tory-outcome for the current year."

Manganese warning

SHARES in Manganese Bronze, which makes London •
taxis, fell from 412 , zp to 4Q3 l 2p after the group revealed a
fail in first half pre-tax profits-from £4.1 million to £1.4

to foe end of July to be lower than the previous year. The
introduction of foe TX1 model cost £23 nsllion. Half year,
earni ngs fell from I732p to 5_27p although foe dividend
rises from -330p to 4.00p. Hugh Lang, chairman, said:
“Demand for foe TXl is veiy strong. 7 '

Avon Rubber in US buy

AVON RUBBER isto acquire Hi-Life Rubber in America
for $36 million l £22million) cash. Hi-Life, which is based in
Wisconsin, makes and distributes liners for foe dairy,
industry. It made $4.6 mflfion in the year to December and
has net assets of $&9 nulliori. The deal is foe fofrd made by
Avon during foe past five months . Steve Wllkax. the .chief
executive, said the move reinforced the company's strategy
of enhancing its portfolio and geographic coverage. The
riiaiwroselhpto657hp. : . . . *X..i

Vymura advances

VYMURA, the wallcoverings manufacturer, raisedpre-tax
.profits 15.9 per cent to £5.1 mfllion last year, after dose,
control r of costs and margins! Sales foil from £ 433 nulHonto
£41- million, because of disappointing overseas markets,
.^peaafiy'm North America, where sales were nearly

share increased 193 per cent to J4Jp and foe total diwdend.
for foe year rose G.4p to 5.4p.. '

Predging sales ahead)

BRrnSH PREDQlNG. flic aggregate, ship repair awl
bmtoers merchant group foaftis currently in bid talks-,
raised pretax profrs from £ 2.1 million 10 £25 inillion in
1997 on sales up from £42 inillion to £443milfibn. Eanaings
Ioll -'PP aftera reversal from* tax credit of
££4>p00fo a,charge of £976,000-although foie total dividend,
merfrom^to 63p. Net assets per share rose from l3Sp
to 141p ai» the shares rose bp to ISOhp. On-the hid
approach, foe company says discussions are continuing-

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BUSINESS NEWS 33

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Growth
of IT
forecast

to slow

B ' 1 Chrls a^hes

1 ^ d y levels of
pywtfi bang seen in the
information technology
^ctorare unsustainahleln
Jeloog term, the finance
atrector of one of the stock
market's most successful
computer services com¬
panies said yesterday.

Chris. Banks, of theAn-
gJo-Dufch company CMG.

i*ilSr> the Sf 1 ? had rwuited
iOOO staff in the year to
December 31. boosting the
^oree by 40 per cent.

ihe rales of growth we
are seeing now. if you look
at the next ten years, are
unsustainable," he said.

If you lake our
headcount and add 40 per
rent each year it Is ridicu¬
lous. But demand is still
strong and I don't see that
reducing over the next two
to three years.” Mr Banks
added.

CMG aims to recuit
another 2,000 staff this
year, although Mr Banks
said the market for new
staff would gel tougher as
the industry's skills short¬
age continued.

He said CMG was see¬
ing annual wage inflation
of JO per cent, although
this was offset by offering
staff share schemes.

His comments came as
the company reported a 40
per cent rise in pre-tax
profits for the year to
December 31 from £275
million to £38.6 million, on
turnover of £303 million,
up 24 per cent from £245.2
million.

Shares in CMG rose 65p
to 2337 '2 p, compared with
326p in 1995. The company
plans a bonus issue “to
improve the marketability
of our shares”. ■

Earnings per share were
3SL6p, up 41 per cent from
27.4p. and a total dividend
of73p, up from fip. will be
paid on May 20.

E l_L ih

N

ts 1
K v

franchises
I Fendragon

Bv Kathy Up*ri

l!:i_ puivhi.v: oi a tied nf
r.cw v.c::.«.i-lt.ro helped I’tn-

-.ira^on. li.e c.;r mailer. lift
pre tax profits Z'J per wni to

£15.1 niiifiur. I:.-.: scar.

The uii{L-i\i!iun< were per-
iurrnina in e- pvi.w.tons and
had rontrihuteu a'naut £! mil¬
lion *.u pruiii*. >-;;id the com-
oany. ..!thu;:“>: they had
affected tncraii margins.

The nei' iie:dersriip*» rn-
v!»s*ie 17 l urtl ,:iiJ Vsuvhal!
u;vrstion> hnuchr from com-
pel it nr !.t\ bvrxi’.-c Group

into 199S with a strong bal¬
ance sheet which will enable
us to progress our investment
programme and take advan¬
tage of further opportunities.

TVe look forward with

confidence to continuing
growth and sustained
profitability.”

Mr Finn said Fendragon
still bad about £40 million
earmarked for the current
year to spend on acquisitions
and the expansion of its
dealerships.

Confident Trin or r:r.:i, ate due! e'.eei:ti\e. still has £40 million earmarked to spend on expanding Pen dragon's car deaScrs!*.!!

’'Vi-- year

tLiv.ards Mil- end ■>) last tear.

Turnover during the year

Trc-M'7 fi.iiii.

. t!:c ciiii-f cuv

jumped from £5SU million to

uli’.ii -ajd !h^

will be fur-

£S63.7 million while earnings

ci:tT rotif-na

tlisslhiR and

per share increased 7 per cent

roiruciurinif •

ni-; car. which

f«> l\.2p.

-vnuld aili.-.v •.

treater r-cnefits

New car sales were

In.i.n ihe t*.-' 1

■iM-ific— i<. and

responisblc for the majority of

In:- cms?;::”

operation- to

the growth in 1997 with gross

filler throi,L.i‘.

profits rising from £25.7 mil-

:ha first

?»•»/ •nu'j.'h nf

iron to £35.5 million.

! nUR. vuiurv.- .

were about 10

Investors will receive a final

per veii*. nin-tu!

•.*i iii-i cur.

dividend of 7.1p up from 6 . 6 p

! Jr n.!!u: " i

errutp -joes

for a total !0.7p for the year.

at British Vita
City expectations

\ 11

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By Martin Barrow

GcSder Hope

Directors:

BRITISH VITA, ilie ptilvir.w.
fabric/ and fibres t-Yirajiariy;-
said stable ran matcriai prices

helped offset the r-\1verv;.mi-
pad of Ur.- '»irchi‘!i -' ur rr.'fr.s
in 1997, when prc-lx 1 : nruili-
rose io a record: .

The company reported 3 I:
per cent ris? in tire-tax profits
to £bhj million yesterday.
ahead 1 of City expetiaiMMV;.
Earnings rose to IP.Sp a share'
from lo.Sp." •

Despite a reduction ,in turn¬
over 10 £Sn5.4 million from
£8955 million. Hie company
■lifted operating profits to £55.5
million from £-19 million, win
operating margins up by r.
fifth.

Bob'McGee. cnairmi-n, said
the overall business envinn-

! our it ok-

iiiep.!

V h u •’ : i: I'fiMt. 7ih.*
n.f»r; hau ‘utceede.! fr rv-

; IVJ ;i Cii'. i; ic

•mpCMve iis oerfi'-mancc !:i
lA-’C'-i: oi tile- rougher rr-jri.ots.

Suv prices were

g-fneritily whb tile ex¬

ception of -.enc reduction in".

piiyssrcr hnre prices and in-

.crci.-.es specific pylyrneTs
vciihii. the Lndustriai dhision.
Generali). increases anticipat¬
ed during the tour'h quarter
did not mi’terialise.

The butt: ol operating prof¬
its canic from she cellular
jinl-.Tiier. division. which
makes blue!; foams.

moulding and from mat-

tressss. hs prufiis rosctu £32.1
million from a related HI2

million despite a fall in turn¬
over to £459.7 from £505.1
million.

Industrial polymers, which
produces rubber compounds,
coatings and thermoplastics,
had stable profits at £15.7
million, against £15.6 million
last time, on turnover that
eased to.£200.3 million from
£207.4 million.

Turnover also fell in fabrics
and fibres, down to £145.4
million from £161 million, but
profits rose 10 E7.7 million
from £7.1 million.

Mr McGee said the com¬
pany h3d made an encourag¬
ing start to Ihe current year in
most areas of operation. The
financial crisis in the Far East,
which has affected demand for

raw materials, should r^v.::r
char prices wan'd rc-mai.-i
ble in the short to medium
term. He said the company’*
broad geographic spread aiid
product portfolio would help
offser the adverse impact of the
Asian crisis.

Mr McGee said it would be
possible for British Vita,
which is now capitalised at
around £640 million. u» be
able to make an acquisition
worth around £100 million

without putting undue pres¬
sure on the balance sheet.

A final dividend of lOp a
share lifts the total dividend to
I9.4p a share from ISJp.
payable from earnings from
continuing operations that
rose by 15 per cent to I9.Sp.

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The Director-, a:in-ir.ee J at ihe anauJswJ rc--ii::< «V,r the ->ix months ended 31st December,
were:

Group

Company

Regal revam
cost up to

By Dominic Walsh

REGAL HOTEL Group is ip'
change its name and rebrand
its hotels as part of a three-
year capital expenditure pro¬
gramme costing between £75
million and £90 million.

During the past two years,"
Regal has quadrupled in sire.
Charles Vere Nicoll, chief
executive, estimated its enter¬
prise value—a combination of
market capitalisation plus
debt — at £320 million.

- The new brand for the 100-
M strong hotel network, was yes-
' terday described by Mr Vere
NicoH as “quite quirky and
evocative”. It will be made
public this month.

The rapid pace of expansion
was reflected in a 67 per cent

jurtip in 1907 pre-tax profiti.U:
£17.46 -million, nn turnD'.*.-
titat impnwed 53 per cent 10
EIOl.S million.

Earnings per share ro.ro- :(J
per cent to 5.i7p and a final
dividend of 0.S5p. which :>
payable on June l. makes ;;
total oFI25p (). 0 P) .

Mr Vere Nkoll said tfia;
1997.had beert “a year tri snj'd
groyrth", vvifii all the key ratii’-s
moving alieud. Sales pi.*r avail¬
able room were up 3 per cent
tn £2!J5b and average room
occupancy rca-t from •»'
63.7 per cent. The achteve-i
rooni ra te was up 4 per cent on
199o. aL. £26.70. K-.xiin re:ur-
bishmenrs yiddeil a return of
around 2d rer cent.

Successors named as
Candover rises 35%

P.-« Rtcii vru Mills

CANMVTK, the investiuent
rrost company thar specialises
in vc.nn: re ctipitaJ. has rq'ort-
ed a 35.2 per cent rise in 1997
pre-tax profits to £7J million.

Net assets grew LL3 p.*r
cent, to G 0 «.) million, as
Candover raised ES5U million
to fmance investments over
i?w next r.vo to litree years.

Uiiser. Brooke, chairman,
said 'har'Candiiver had rcal-
-. -^i ■ its investments in 11
a implies ditrcig the year,
iricluding Evershoit Leasing
hid Eurnp-ar. R;iii Catering.

Net assets' -.vere 7ll3p a
share, up from t«53p tj year
ago. The shares fell 2i)p to
0 yesterday.

Funds investet) in 1497 toiol-

Brooke: to retire next year

led £69.3 million, of which
Candover’s share was £155
million. Since the beginning of
the year, Candover has led the
buyout of Fairey Hydraulics

and the £360 million acquisi¬
tion of IJPN from United
News & Media.

Mr . Brooke, who intends to
retire ar next year’s annual
meeting, said that the main
event of the year had been the
successful dosing of the £S50
million Candover 1997 Fund,
which includes a co-in vestment
of £100 million by Candover.

Mr Brooke will be succeed¬
ed by Stephen Curran, the
chief executive. Doug Fair-
service will become joint depu¬
ty chairman. Colin Bu/fin and
Marek Gumienny have been
made joint managing direc¬
tors with immediate effect.

Earnings per share were
2337p, fully diluted, up from
I6.95p. A 15p final dividend
lifts the total to 20p. from I5p.

fn*. estment and other income

Associated comranie;.

Exceptional hvm 'See M--ic ! 1 . 49555

Pn^fu t.cl'orc tc:.,;tion *Sec Note 2» .181.613

Tc-.clic-ri 'See N.vc .’ l .

Profit at;e- !.!-,jtj.>n.

Mrn^ritv interest« .

Profit aitribuiable 10 shareholder^....

NOTES

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Gain on cum ru Ivory
land acquisition.

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ended

ended

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the companies act 1986

9PM UO. HESOLUTION OF
B El CUT * GALBRAITH
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NOTUT. TO iSSECHTCre: OP
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DMnTD AND GBBUL TRUST

ON MBMIHllW VOLUNTARY
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UNI T ED AND GENERAL TRUST
LIMITED

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VALE TRUST
EMWBIP- TOUMTART

lmdumikso

CotBpeny raxMtec 370368
NOTICE TO CHAIR 10*8 OF TALE
TRUST UBZIID

On 6 Match 1998 the company
wee placed In mambaoT
voluntary Hqnidulon nad Robert

jMf—KBW HtXHX of P l lB’M

WunhnH m eppdmed

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than mahea Saali

by tba

Date « March 1998

LEGAL, PUBLIC. COMPANY
k PARLIAMENTARY NOTICES

TO PLACE NOnCESrtlL TUB EKIKH

0 E71-dM 6S78<* TAW»17t-481 «ll 3

NuHioeaieWiLitocttoc

Confident
funds put
trust in
FTSE 250

By Alvsdvir Mutim

ECONOMICS aiRRESPONOLNT

Pr»»fii bi'lirr ;:i\ji:un

us h percentjge of iiitivvcr .

Prrtfii ;.fter luMitiun und ntintuit;. inl-Te.,it

j.? #1 pvrcenljje oi' sh.irchi’iders' Jund ; ..

Ne: ejmiHL' perslure tin sen) .

Ne; tungiiMe a.sycl bjcking per shure .

r The net c.tnunvs per shine unc net i.ingrhL- av«cl hacking per share are calculated based on
l.0t»4.!-42.4 l ’9 • Il..'03 1 Zv , c..4 , fr'. share", m issue.

The imcr.ivcment in prclil before i vain-n is largely anributable to better performance of lie
pljrtati.in, m-inufuctur-.iii uri.l i.ver*’a-. division:, and the inclusion of exceptional item. This is
however. Partly offset h\ I.-.v.lT crir.tr frjti..*:'. from our property operations in view of the current
economic dim-mum. I lie incn-vro- in .-.snirihutior. trom plantation is mainly due to better palm
prices and .: Iv-.-t.r e .tcr.; r.ic'ifj jiroductit-n. Plantation profit for the second half is
expected i«i ir.ipri.'xe n line v.illi hictie/ n-in*s of palm products although crop production is
anticipated to re i-:*-'.- Proper.--. mreufacMirinfl und overseas activities are also expected to
perlern boil-:- .han the 'li't hvll. -.iiJ r m N further enhance the Group's results for the year.
KARVi-:s7/-:D CttOr? - 7i'J\N£-S

Group

6 months 6 months

FUND MANGERS arc shift¬
ing their attention t> stopk*
outside the FTSE 100 index as
confidence grows that con¬
sumer spending is set to
remain strong.

The Merrill Lynch/Gallup
survey oF UK fund managers
showed the number of ins titu-
tions favouring the FSTE 250
index of stocks doubling in
March, although there was a
decline in the overall level of
buying in the UK marker.

Equity buyers out-nu in¬
hered sellers by jusT 3 per cent
compared with !4 per cent in
February. The number who
preferred large cap stocks
declined from 79 per cent to 53
per cent, white FTSE 250
buyers jumped from 15 per
cent to 3S per cent

Trevor Cheetham. z global
strategist at Merrill Lynch,
said that mediuas-sired com¬

ended

ended

31.12.97

31.12.96

827318

793.856

162392

154,181

46334

44353

17,053

17.122

1,186

2.969

1,951

2388

panies are more expusco to me j
domestic economy and fund

managers nave oecnme ouy-
ers in the belief that: consumer
spending will remain strong.

“The growing sense that the
UK economy may no: he
slowing so rapidly after oil
may help explain why manag¬
ers are at last paying more
attention to tire FTSE 250."

However, a majority of fund
managers still expect base
rates to climb higher, al¬
though the survey was con¬
ducted ahead of last week's not
to change interest rates.

FFH.

Fidtout: ..... .

t*ilm ! ernci.

Rubber . ..

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Cupn> .. ... ... .

DIVIDEND

Ar. interim -vn !e-., ; r..v iv tex at 2i',- nas b«*en declared in respect of the

twain.;jl yc.it c.iji-is. J'-.v. D-w-. p.-v.jrL Thurxijy, M)ih April 1W8.

CLOSURE OF LSOOKS

NOTICE IS HERESY GIVEN t-u- tbc Share Transfer B>.mks. Register of Members and Record
of Depiv-.itop -a ill bt .-’..i-.-.l r'fmi 7tii \pril. to 9lli April. 1998. both days inclusive to
determine r^arelinljer*' -niitiimen: K; lb; dicidcnJ payment.

Dufy ccmpfeteJ L-.msfrr-. re.J-.vu b; the Company's Registrar up to 5.00 pan. on 6th April,
19 r '>' w ill be rcyi:tcr-.-i! bei'nrc en - 1 tiei.verts to the di-.idenu ;ue dctemiined. The dividend will
be paid i-«» /•• 'fri April.

R. ! RT*-iH? XoTi^F !> Hf-.'-.L-iV (,) VEN tiiai the Malaysian Central Depository Sdn. Bhd.
shai.’ K j.\ .-pCi-.y an . 'caaest;. for dc~c :«m//or w ithdrju'j? of shares commencing
12.50 p.in. or. 2:‘J - pro. fr“»v uent i* !•* p.ro »i vthApnl. 1998.

A .Jejs. it.e •>’, .p. I.t*. • .r .n'.ti.;i .«r.l; .n respect of:

tji Shares ^r.s-.f. J ; ;>v cYr -e-J.'itics account before 12.30 p.ni. on

2nd ■•pr : . 1 • •••;,•

Sbjv. .vi • i'liLi...- 15* 1 1-.- .kr*r ji..r‘. securities, account as at 12.29 p.m. on
2nd nor.' •

S!ia:e- ; mi<- :r.: Jep.' -ti.i:’s ^’eitriiie- account before 12.30 p.m. on 6th April,
19wf: in r-.s,..c: ei irmsfer*.

Shate- the i?e:sM!*>r':- -..runiijs uccount at or before 3.00 p.m. on

4th April. fr-S r ;.,y.c; ipftv:. Lrausier-: and

tcf Share. r-Li- • • *n riiw lai-nj-c.r Ska. 1: :-.-.ehtsiiite on a cum emillemenibasis according

in tiu.- Rule: ■ ( ;he vluaJe Lirmpaf Stork E*.cnanee.

COPIES OFT:IE CC'.-PAW’S INTERIM RES’URT

-. fc r.p\ *d the Ct-mpereA ir.'efin: htopfirt wifi he posted tn shareholders on 12th March, 1998.
Copies vvill re av’utLi.5i.- from tire Company's rcaislcrcd office and the Branch Registrar.
lnuLpcnce:i: flce.:.-Mr> Groan, lir-urre Hou-rf. 34. Beckenham Road, Beckenham, Kent

BR3 4Tl ; . L i'iicd

KU AL A LUiV!?' ; E ' By Order of The Board

9ih March !9 U ^ Noriin binti Abdul Samad

LS 000981
Secwiaiy

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has revealed the least-known of Ms

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” ty produced since he made the
audacious derision to put aside his

camp* and, at the age of 65. take

up the pendl instead.

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of medium is more understandable,
man it might appear. For Cartier-
Bresson trained as an artist- in
Paris, long before Ik learnt how to
look through a viewfinder. One of
die few paintings on view at the
Royal College shows ■ a female
nude, reclining in the studio be¬
longing to his teacher, Andrt Ihote,

• It is a pleasant study, like most of
his other surviving student works.
But their modest level of achieve¬
ment gives little hint of the vision'
Cartier-Bresson was to show in his
ja photography.

His discovery of the cam«a
occurred, significantly enough,
after he spent a year in Africa
working as a hunter. Exhausted by
a severe attack of blackwater fever
that forced him to return home, he
took a camera to the South of
France and started shooting. Ibis
time, killing was not involved. But
many of Cartier-Bresson's best
photographs depend on Ids ability ,
to stalk, wait, aim and press die.
trigger at precisely the right
second.

Not that his art training proved
irrelevant Despite their inspired
reliance on chance and the
snatched moment many of his
early European pictures show a
sophisticated feeling for composi¬
tion. When he catches a small
Roman girl at the instant of
running mto a rectangle of Medi-
• terranean sunlight all nis attention ..
v®might seem to be concentrated on r
the figure alone. But the multi-
angled play of shadows around
her. no less than the tilted buildings
massed beside her and above, all
contribute to the pictorial vitality of
this carefully calculated image.
Copes of Old-Master paintings are
included in the Royal College show,
and they testify to a lifetime of
learning from the art of the past

As a photographer, though. Car- 4
tier-Bressbn was equally alive, to
the avant-garde. Looking down, a ;
spiralling staircase at Hy£res in „
1932, he defined the dynamism of
steps and iron railings with an eye '•
sharpened by geometric abstrac¬
tion. But he paused until a man -
cyded past on the ambled street
below, and his blurred figure
prevents die picture from divorcing .
itself too radically from the every¬
day world. Cartier-Bresson was far.
too involved with humanity to
become an Abstractionist He may
jj}have delighted in the formal play of

tirdes; oWorigs’ahd toxs-outlined
by- fioatmg diteas on the flooded ~
Pont del'Eurdpe. But the image is.
dommafcd by^-a sOhonefte of a

the

tibn dramatically isolated in the
w ater. - >•. • v

Even when pec^Sepfaya-tfiminu-
trve rofe in Jhs phrtographs, . ti^i
are far from iraodentaL A view rtf
- the Tinleries/Cardens in 1969
seems to "be given over entirefy to
stripped .winter - trees., standing
moornfufiyso attention in. long,
martial rows. But then, far away.,
we noticea distent couple, captured
as theymove across die intersection
of two broad avenues. However
insignificant they may seem, then
presence transfbrmstbejHcrure.

.^Cartier-Bresson's ability to cap¬
tureidle fugitive moment and give it
turidi^ettablejrerraanence lies at.
-flie core' of his woik. Nobody is:
more consaoos of flux:- and in a

- C He is a
tireless:
hunter who
knertys v
exai^ywhen
to pounce 3

1933 aerial shot of Siena the
. shadows seem to move further over
. the piazza as we ponder this bold,
dream-like image. Its air of silent
expectancy suggests that he owed a
debt to de Chirico’S paintings of
similar scenes. But figures can. also
be detected , m the Sena picture,
-makingtbarimnusculewayacross
tbeemptiness. Theyfook isolated
and vulnerable enough to explain
why CartierBresson should ad¬
mire Giacometti so much: the
latter's bronze phBM i inhabited
only by a few attenuated figures
walking or held spellbound, ex¬
plore related areas affecting.

A; hhough he is not identi-
fied by name, Giacometti
/ himself appears in the.
X JLraiddk (finance of case
Hayward Gallery photograph.
Caught with a raised foot, as he
negotiates a harrow; pathway be¬
tween ancient houses at Stampa in
Switzerland; he tutns to acknowl¬
edge the camera^ presence. Car¬
tier-Bresson may have asked him to
walk there: the composition is an
impeccably calculated affair, filled
with angular . shadows scything,
through sunlit patches and the

diagonal forms of projecting tim¬
bered roofs. By glancing at the lens,
Giacometti seems to be implying
that he understands the photo¬
grapher^ intentions. And some of
the swiftfy executed, unpretentious
pendl portraits and landscapes at
die Royal College indicate that
Cartier-Bresson has betei influ-
enced.in turn, by Giacometti's own
spidery drawings.,

The sculptor reappears in the
National Portrait Gallery's exhibi¬
tion, tins time in images where his
deeply furrowed facets explored in

view of a people person

all its cragginess. Cartier-Bresson
shoots him against a door even
mace gnarled and weathered than
'Iris own don.

.The most memorable portraits
on, view here usually show the'
subjects in contexts that enhance
their meaiung. Jeai>-Paul Sartre,
his fur-lined coat buttressing him
’^gainst-a Parisian winter, looks
askance as he broods on a mdan-
dtaty Existential bridge. Samuel
Beckett,, his hawk’s eye; trained -
frenzy downwards, is juxtaposed
with an aggressive lamp pamting
up at his bookshelves. Tony Han¬
cock, rumpled and sullfy, sits
huhehed on some steep stairs with
a fin g er jarnmBrl ehilritcHy a gaintt
his mouth. Marcel Duchamp, wav¬
ing a cigar in the air, lounges-
-. roguishly beside the btcyde wheel
be turf nominated as a work of art
•name fins half a century before.

S ome c£ the portraits —
Harold Mac m illan and
Qxfl Beaton among them
— are .tiirajfoamtmgly
hlandand unexceptional Maybe
Cartier-Bresson was defeated by
. their English reserve. He abhors
formality, preferring whenever
possible to let prairie, forget the
presence of the camera. Then,
myambfy with artists as ins sub¬
jects, the outcome can be magnifi¬
cent. Bonnardstanding in his cold
studio, a scarf wound tightly round
Ms neck, gazes glumly at tire light
and kneads his large, knotty hands
with undisguised anxiety. He could
scarcely be more at variance with
the rotund equanimity of Matisse,
encoded by bud-cages and leaning
bade in a chair as he sketches the
plump dove held in his grip.

Above afl, though, the arefv-
charadeon Picasso is caught in two
utterly different moods. The first,
taken in 1944 when he was trapped
in occupied Baris and pamting his
bleakest pictures, shows him in
surprisingly jovial guise. Half-
naked in a bedroom efuttered with
dothes. prints, books and brushes,
be shows off Ms expansive torso
with shameless machismo. .

In the later po rtr a it, though, all
that bravado has vanished. The
octogenarian artist frowns as he
stares in the direction of the lens.
His dark. eyes . are still alert,
concentrated and penetrating.
Dressed in a simple white shirt, he
no longer indulges inhis old love of
exhibitionism. Even his gaze app¬
ears, finalfy, to be directed mwanis
rather than at the camera. He has
the look of an old man confronting
his mortality, just as he does in
some of Ms own latese^portrazts.

Picasso does not flinm. and he
gives no sign of evasion. But there
is anger m his eyes,' as well as
despondency. His face looks slight¬
ly blurred, as if affected already by
the c&ssohition he sees ahead of
Mm- It is tiie most truthful and
revealing photograph of Picasso I
have ever seen, tile work of a
tireless and patient , hunter who
knows exactly when to pounce.

• Europeans at the Hayward Gallery
lDm-2610127) until April 5; Tftfri-TSte
at die National Portrait Gallery (0171-
-306 0055) until June 7: line by Line of
theRcyal College of Art (0171-5904444)
until April?.

3 ,*-T. f

The mote memorable portraits usually show the subjects in contexts that enhance their meaning: thus Jean-Paul Sartre on an Existential bridge

AROUND THE LONDON GALLERIES

"HE young American artist
Lmy Adler is no relation of the
isychologist Alfred Adler,, but
he draws on the resonances
f their shared surname in the
irie of her first Loudon show,,
Tie Problem Child. The six
ilack-and-white portraits drat
Hake up this multi-part piece
ould almost be a set of
lustrations from a psycholog-
al text.

Taken individually, each
licture appears little mare
ban a nostalgic portrait of
dolescence. Each shows a
ioy engaged in the sort of
lastimes that any young teen- •
per might engage in: shoei¬
ng marbles, reading a
choolbook. larking around,
tut seen together they raise
uestions. Who are these
iqys? What do they share?
low will they develop? And is
; sadness that yoa can seem
fieireyes? ■

There are no ready answers

3 be found in The Problem
7 hild. A sense of displace-
lent, of uneasy detactenent,
lowly gathers ui tiie
*his is echoed by Adler^s
Khnique. The pirtures toe
holographs of (now ^7
troyed) pastel drawings that

Adler made of photographs
which she found in the first
place. The children they show
are trapped in a limbo of
reproduction.

Charles Saatdu bought up
this whole show cm its opening
night. Adler is obviously an
artist to watch. -
Amy Adler The Problem
Child is on show at the
Entwhistle Gallery, 6 Cork
Street, London W1 (0171-734
6440) until April 9

■THE installation Any'Ob-:
ject in the Universe, tiie thir¬
teenth. in tire Tate’s Art Now
programme, also explores
themes of identity and dis¬
placement The artist Graham
Gussin has taken his inspira¬
tion from a haunting story by
Edgar Allan Poe, A rate of the
Ragged Mountain^ in which
illusion seeps inside reality
and truth and hafludnation
become disturbing confused.

Slipping along a narrow
dimly lit conidor, tiw viewer
enters a gloomy, echoing
room. A projection fills one of.
the walls. It is an image of the
room in which you are stand¬
ing but it is empty, save tor. a:
microphone on a stand. As tire’

visitor moves about the sound-
sensitive floor every step is
electronically magnified. It re¬
verberates, eerily, but not
from where the visitor is
standing: it echoes in. tiie
empty, illusory chamber.
Presence is marked where
there is only absence.

This is a baffling piece. Far
the full effect, perhaps you
should go with a tap dancer to
seen.

Art Now 13: Graham Gussin
is at the Tate. Gallery ,
Millbank London SW1 (0171-
8378000) unta April 26

■ AS SHE cydes around
London. Sarah Holliday sees
a dty in a state of flux.
Wherever a building has been
knocked down, .she says, it
leaves a trace behind, some¬
times visible, sometimes just a
feeling. It is thfa. nebulous :
memory "of lingering ghosts
that she tries to distil in. her
watercolours.

Her delicate architectural
studies, with their soft rich
tight add mated tones, drift
between precision and ab-
straction. Nothing is ever fully
explained. Rather. Hofflday
captures the moment of trans¬
formation, the geometric for¬
mality of a builder’s
scaffolding, tiie workmen's

plastic sheeting billowing over

a facade.

—. Even as these paintings are
completed, their subjects have
changed. Something new has
emerged in their place. Bin far
any. Londoner who is fascinat¬
ed by the facades of the dfy in
which they five, by tire forgot¬
ten corners of scruffy, streets
- and by tire fingerprints which
: histoiy leaves evcryydrere be-
hind it. tins exhfKndih wfll be
full of discovery as well as

A part from being impor¬
tant Central European
composers and fairly
bad box office, Haydn and
Bartok might seem to have
little in common. Yet the three
pieces in the latest instalment
of Christoph von Dohn&nyPS
imaginative Haydn-Bartfrk
Festival Hall series with the
Ph3harmonia made perfect
sense together neither com¬
poser works well unless the
performance seeks out what is
hidden behind the notes.

Sundays p rog ra mme fea¬
tured a piece ty each compos¬
er written dining wartime.
Haydn’s Nelson Mass is one
of the composer's six late
masses that reflect turmoil in
Europe at the end of the 18th
century. The final plea for
peace has a special urgency
that was not lost here.

DohnAnyi’s full-blooded ap¬
proach did not mean that the
rhythms were any less tightly
sprung than in k. “period"
performance. He was backed

Echoes from a
distant war zone

CONCERTS

by rich singing from the PhD-
harmonia Chorus, rigorously
drilled for the last time by
David Hill. Some stipped into¬
nation apart, Susan Gritron
soared through- the soprano
solos and led a well-balanced
quartet (the outstanding Ruby
Philogene, Toly Spence and
Neal Davies).

Barfok’s Divertimento for
sitings was co mp osed in 1940.
and its slow movement is an
tioqent lament. Yet much of
tire music has Haydnesque
grace. DohnAnyi shaped a
performance that was both
fluid and disciplined. He
showed the same control in the

suite from The Miraculous
Mandarin . For once this score
sounded like the dance music
it is. That made the perfor¬
mance electrifying.

John Ajluson

T heTaktics Quartet have
come comparatively late
to Janacek. and die ex¬
citement of their discovery is
still vivid. They plan to rernrd
the composer's two quartets:
their five VMgmore Hall per¬
formance made one both im¬
patient for tiie results and
aware that the searing heat of
the performance in the process
of its forging may never quite
be recaptured.

On Friday, they chose Jani-

Cek*s last quartet, composed in
1928 just as he was finishing
his dark Dostoevsky opera.
From the House of the Dead,
and only six months before his
own death. The intense com¬
passion for humanity in that
opera is answered in tire
quartet, intimate Letters, by a
vibrant personal passion: that
for the late-flowering love of
Ms life, Kamila Stossfovd.

The Takics took it in their
long, confident stride, while
never disguising the physical
struggle and elation which is
at one here with the spiritual.
At those moments when Janti-
cek seems to be working on
two or three emotional planes
at once, die players found a
powerful sense of balance.
And where the first violin
soars to extremes of rapture.

Edward Dusinberre’s own
bright, ripe tone rose to a
feverish brilliance.

That same bright leading
light had sharply defined the
Mozart HoJJmeister Quartet
with which the evening had
begun. After the Janatek came
Beethoven's third Raxumovsky
Quartet, and an extraordinary
tour de force of collaborative
virtuosity. Beethoven had
written over the fugal finale,
as if to himself: "Make no
secret of your deafness, not
even in Art” And, as if fired
and fortified by Janacek's
great final oonfession, the
TakScs fought their way
through to a most powerfully
achieved vindication of the
triumph of the human spirit

Hilary Finch

BUILDING A LIBRARY

A guide to the best available classical recordings on CP,
presented in conjunction with BBC Radio 3

fhewafercofourist

-HSSSft

Sarah Holliday: London Un-
ve3&Lisdt the New Academy
Gallaj, 34,Windmill Street,
London WJ (0171-323 4700)
ua&Mtaxdi28

-■Rachel Campbell-
... v : Johnston

■ VERDTS LA TRAVJATA
nwl ew o d by HUchate Oliver

VERDIS La Traviala notori¬
ously failed to please at its first
performance in Venice in 1853.
Hie frail, consumptive hero¬
ine Violetta was sung by the
plump and homely Fanny
Safvmi-DanteeUi foot Verdi’S
choice) and her death scene
was greeted with laughter. A
.year later, in tire same ary but
with a small-voiced wail of a
soprano^ Maria Speaa, the
opera triumphed and it has
remained at the centre .of tire
repert day ever smtse.

. There are about 30 record¬
ings available at present, tut
choice betweeq.tirem is not as
dfffiaih as that might *atgg**<T 1
First; it is the soprano^ opera:
if the Vtotata is moving mtd
convincing, .mote listeners

would be prepared to put up
with a less than ideal tenor or
baritone. Secondly, less than a
third of tire available record¬
ings are complete: convention¬
al cuts are still being made.

For many listeners the
Violetta, incomparably mov¬
ing, miking evoy word and
note come to life, is Maria
Callaa. Both her recordings
are live and in poor-quality
sound. The better of the two is
of a performance in Lisbon in
1958. The finest post-Callas
Violetta is probably fleana
Cotrobas, who recorded the
role with ideal colleagues

(PUcido Domingo and
Sherrill Milnes) under the
vivid and sensitive direction of
Carlos Kleiber in 1977. Fbr a
complete recording, choice lies
between Riccardo Mud's first
recording and Sir Georg
Solti’s. Solti and today's
reigning Violetta, Angela
Gheorghiu, deliver a subtle
and moving performance. Bui
Mori’s 1982 recording has a
more consistently fine cast
(Renata Scorn?, Alfredo Kraus
told Renato Bros on) and is
even more subtly responsive to
Verdi’s instructions (EMI
CDS 7 4753B8-SIS, £32.99).

•To order die recommended recording, with free delivery,
please send a cheque payable to The Times Music Shop to
FREEPOST. SC0681, Forres, IV36 OBR or phone 0345 023 «SL-
p- mnih music@the-times.co. uk. Next Saturday on Radio 3
(9dnt): Schumann’s Humoreske in Bflat, Op 20

PRINCES; POETS &
PALADINS

Islamic and Indian Paintings
from the Collection of
Prince and Princess Sadruddln Aga Khan

Until 13 April 1998

Supported by Prince Sadruddn Aga Khan
and Aftajir World of Islam Trust

Admission free

Monday-Saturday 10-5
Sunday 230-6
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SamaitfE Bond play mother and
daughla m David Hare's rrucvng
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unchanged from the National Theatre
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4166003) Mon-SaL 7 30pm; mat Sat.
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■ THE DAY I STOOD STILL
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6363). Tontght-Thu. 715pm: mat Thur.
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S ince last May noAing
thaft new can be left
for us Q) decide for
ourselves bui • must
have a great big N£W stuck in
front of it Thus for Jenny
Topper’s current New Direc¬
tions season at the Hampstead
Theatre even one reference to
its novelty is not enough; there
has to be a ringing subtitle.
“New Ideas. New Plays, New
Perspectives".

Some of her choices have
been coolly received bur the
latest satisfies all the require¬
ments. Its author, Steve Wa¬
ters, has never before bad a
play professionally produced
in London, and the entire

action occurs in the front seats
of cars crisscrossing England.
So this is new both for idea,
direction, and perspectives,
though the driving is all done
by night, and mostly by motor¬
way. “Ill take a road with an
M in it." says Kathy, a young
barrister on the run from
motherhood, wifehood and
possibly lifehood.

The play opens as she drives
westward, managing nor to
tall asleep at the wheel by
articulating a cataract of
thoughts about husband,
young baby, discontent, dis¬
content with being discontent¬
ed. all delivered by Li 2 zy
Mclnnemy in a husky, crack¬
ing voice to which (could have
gone on listeningall night Not
strangled, exactly, but with a
gasp below the breath as
though someone has been
strangling her for some time
and has just left off. Mean¬
while dogged husband Peter
(Lloyd Hutchinson) has driven
back from his Eurojob in
Brussels and is making fin’tiie
Suffolk coast of his childhood.
He is giving a lift to a teenage
girl (Jo Durham), armed with

Road rage Lizzy Mclnnemy arzd Lloyd Hutchinson steer Sieve Waters's powerful newplay along life's highways

a knife but pitifully naive, and
where Kathy's revelations
come in monologue, his are
drawn from him by this
degraded innocent .

Waters must surely be an
experienced driver because his
perception of how people bur¬
ble away to themselves at the
wheel is so acute and enter¬
taining. I never grasped why

both their cars should be left-.
hand drive, unless to distin¬
guish present from past
journeys, when a younger
Kathy and Peter are in a car '

X ier. Here the driving-
l is on the usual side bid
it is a small advantage for a
Large distraction.

The intention may be-to
contrast an English past with

a European present. Waters’s
recreation of early -1980s
Thatcher baby talk is uncom¬
monly Shrewd, and so could
also connect with the charac¬
ters’ hands-off. hearts-on feel¬
ings for their parents.

This aspect doesn't fully
convince but there is so much
to appreciate elsewhere, and
for a play where the cast stays

seated almost throughout,
with just a couple of attempts
at coition across the front
seats, the direction by Gemma
Bodinetz holds our attention
by the vocal range and sensi¬
tivity of the actors. New Play.
New Performances. New
Welcome.

Jeremy Kingston

Pregnant
and heavy

ISff^KSp!

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EVER since Demi Moore appeared
naked and with child on the cover of
Vanity Fair; exposing one's pregnancy
in public has become fashionable. But
it is still a startling aghi ah stage* given.;
the nightly stress of acting. Saira Todd,
recent star of Tony Marchanfs TV
drama Holding On, not only plays
Elinor, a heavily pregnant woman, she
is seven months gone herself.

This is brave acting in a comic
psychodrama by Maureen Chadwick
in which Todd’S Elinor is harassed,
intimidated and finally terrorised by
her middle-aged cleaning lady. Eileen.

Somewhere between the sponge
fingers and the vacuuming, the wheels
have come off Eileen's sanity. She
arrives two hours earlier than usual
with some peculiar ideas about dust.
Bumholes produce the most dust, she
insists, that is why surgeons wear their
trousers down their boots. It is as if this
strange but true fact had finally tipped
her over the edge. It is enough to
prompt an irritated, unstable Elinor to
sack EDeen.

- It is here that Barbara Ewing's
superbly unhinged Eileen takes on all
the trappings of the Annie Wilkes
character in Stephen Kind’s novel
Misery. But rather than shiver when
Eileen turns the key in the bedroom
lock and takes a knifeout of her pocket,
our sympathy is entirely- with the'
patronised deaner for the simple
reason that Todd's spoilt and peevish
Elinor displays the social skills of a
Mill wall supporter.

What makes this manipulation so
enjoyable is the quirky comedy Chad-
wide extracts from the situation. When
Elinor’s mother, arrives like a gaudy
divordfe faffiL.a Noel Gowatd play:
there is a wrarderful stretch where.
Eileen's feigned innocence is at won¬
derful odds with the semi-hysterical
Elinor. Flapping about stage as if a
wasp had stung her in an unreachable
place, Todd fails to convince her
mother of the scenario until, slightly
tipsy on her own power, Eileen decides
to enlighten Janet Jefferies’s Eveline
herself.

Bernadette Roberts's creamy bed¬
room set would have tickled PabJo
Picasso. Cut into a sort of five-sided
cake slice and tipped at an angle, it.
neatly suggests a sanatorium environ¬
ment with an unhealthy twist. Director
Maggie Norris conjures lovely dash¬
ing performances from her cast. Rarely
are characters so deverly trapped by
their own self-obsessions.

James Christopher

THERE are two entirely unrelated
temptresses with the same exotic name
haunting the London fringe; James
Christopher writes. ■ Snoo Wilson's
Sah in a is currently arousing. Cjari.
Jung at the Bosh, while Chris Dolan's
Sabinal is seducing her Glaswegian,
landlord,- Matthew, at the Pleasance.

- In Dolan’s play, however. Sabina is
a deception. Matthew does hot realise
that the Czech dissident he falls madly
in love with is in fact boring old
Sandra Hamilton from down the
road. Nor that he & the subject of a bet
between Sandra and her flatmate.
Tereza, a real Czech dissident, about
how far be wall fall. It is a dever moral
experiment, conducted in a'Glasgow
flat on the eve of the Velvet Revolution
in 1989.

life is infinitely more exciting, and
oddly real, for Sandra when she slips
on her little -red dress and plays the
romantic freedom fighter, Sabina
Vasiliev. What is slightly disappoint¬
ing is the hamfisted caricature that
Lorraine McGowan makes-of her.

Chin tilted up, arms akimbo, fingers
pinching thin air. and mimicking the

- deep Slavic vowds of her flatmate.
Sandra’s wildly romanticised alter ego
is begging to be flattened by a train*

- Why Vincent Friell’s Matthew falls for**
tins ludicrous illusion becomes the

- sole point of interest in Dolan's play.
The payoff for Sandra is being loved.
There 'is the obvious comedy of
covering her tracks when Matthew
asks awkward questions, but it seems
thaf Matfhew, too, needs die vicarious
thrill of being involved with an
idealistic struggle more than he needs

■ the truth. life in Glasgow is dearly too
:«grey,;.-,-.

Inevitably, the longer the deception
is sustained the more unbelievable
Leslie Finlay's production for the
Scottish company Borderline be¬
comes. Infatuated with her own cre¬
ation. Sandra starts to believe she
really is Sabina. But Tereza, tired of
having her accent, nationality and
past appropriated by Sandra, finally
rebels. Unfortunately, Jane Stablei's
glamorous Tereza is, in most respects,
quite as unbelievable as Sabina. An
academic whose grey-coloured books
1 lie in piles against the wads, shesfts bv_ -
her desk under a switch of longTdond*^
hair, her legs voluptuously crossed,
bernaked feet pointed like a ballerina,
intoning-in her dootny, throaty voice
that it will all end in tears. How it all
squares with the revolution in Czecho¬
slovakia is a mystery that Dolan never
unravels.

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— E TIMES TUESDAY’Mr^ 101998

ARTS DANCE 39

Pgggld Hutera meets New'Ydrk choreographer Bill T. Jones as he prepares for a London season. Plus, Richard Alston reviewed

•T T 7?^s roll out of

• BlU V 1 - Jones'S

wf V mouth the way

movanent rolls

^ ”*•**&*&

Precision

. md flashy of force. Since he
dances in the
early 1970s, the charismatic
: chDre ographer:has

fashioned a career out of using
.• s P ee ^" and. especially, flesh to
; give his personal take on what
it means to be alive.

,"r ~We Set Out Early.-..,'

. . Jones slowly pronounces the

• title of his latest -full-length
dance, whidi comes to the

7 Jeacock Theatre next week.

....visibility Was poor. It
_sounds like the beginning of a
■ novel, doesn't it?”

• . ft is a bitingly cold January;
itigiht in Bologna, Italy, the
-kind of weather conducive to
■curling, up in a warm ntaw
With: a good book. Although
Jones, . *57, is meant to be
renting backstage before his
company's performance at the
Arena, del Sole, he is. as ever,

■ prepared to talk. Batfcnt, yet
" zealous, he sounds like a cross
between a lecturer, a Story-
Teller and a preacher
“I chose a narrative title as a
' kind of tease." Jones says until
a sly grin. “Yes, there had been
times in the past when I have
done monologues, had charac¬
ters, made references to litera¬
ture. And in dance, there’s
always a story. But it doesn't
have to proceed in a linear
fashion.

“This piece proceeds by the ■
Laws of dance. Its almost,
purely dance material. It'S
about rhythm, space,' design,
and the way the" body
organise itself."

It wasn't such formalist 7
impulses - that drew wide¬
spread attention to Jones's two
previous full-length shows.
Made in l990,Xasf Supper At
Unde Tam's Cabin/ The

Promised Land was a contro¬
versial and deliberately frag¬
mented saga of racism,
sexuality and faith that found
inspiration in, among others,'
Leonardo da Vinci, Harriet
Beecher Stowe and Mfotin
Luther King. Combining the
sweep ofopera with the impact
of political statement, it was a -
cascade of theatrically power-'-
•'fill images of ^ humiliation, :

sacrifice, oppression and. ultj-
matdy, redemption The Vaxir,

. can was outraged.

• Jones’S 1994 * follow-up.
Stm/pfere, kick-started one of
the ' decade's most virulent
artistic debates. -CuQed . foom
workshops. conducted with
people coping"withlife-threat¬
ening Hto esses,, the. two-part-
production maintained a
• beautifully mature, blear-eyed
balance between the spiritual
arid the corporeal.- v •

Not that influential Ameri-'
can dance critic Arlaoe Croce
saw it that way. In" fact, she
didn’t see it at afl. Instead, in,a
Mistering essay in TheNey>
Yorker .magazine, Croce
branded Jones's work "victim
art", and judged ^ impossible
. torevdewbecause’e^^
to which - it begged her
„ sympathy. , - •

While the criticism hurt and
offended Jones, it didn't ham¬
per his restless creativity. He
- makes dances' now with the
same urgency and depth of
feeling that have marked his
-work ever since : the /uds-
relaced death ofhis lover, the
dancer-choreographer j ;Arnie -
;Zane. im years. aga Jones is -,
probably aware that; with its'
air of abstract, mytfery and
seamless choreographic eclec¬
ticism, We Set Out Eariy;-. is
unlikely to. inspire the clam our
its predecessors did. But for
him it is the biggest step yet in
a new aesthetic direction.

•• "The. works of the past few
years have been about things
easy to talk about outside the
dance," he says. “The chall¬
enge of faring mortality, iden¬
tity issues: these are things you
could have a lively discussion
about with almost anyone." .

The shift away from in-
your-face polemics has been
gradual. . *T was" thinking,
about making another big
work and went through my -
.catalogue of ideas tube devel¬
oped. Same are fragments of
movement, -same ': musical
ideas, cithers decor notions. -
What l had was a title basedin
*we’, something epic that sug¬
gests a very open-ended sense
of a journey." - • - .

It was music that offered
structure and itinerary. We
Set M Out Eariy ., . is an evoca-

specific trip./ through- the -

moods; and upheavals of tire
20tti century. It segues from
'1917 (via a suite version of Igor
Stravinsky's A Soldiers Tate)
(0 the mid-1950s (a selection of
three: John Cage scores for
piano, voice and silence) to
1991 (a turbulently lyrical,
cathartic string symphony by
Latvian composer Feterfs
"VasksJ. Robert Wiereel's sensi¬
tive lighting and emblematic
sefr-pieoes by janes's partnered
five years, Bj6m Amelan, also
contribute to the piece's
strong. though .enigmatic air

“I'm not so interested in
naturalism right now," Janes
aclinic. “I’m making a brand
of theatre whichinvites you in
to dream, to contemplate, to
.fed emotion. To do that I am
relying less cm scenario. The
thane is in the movement, the
rhythmof the hips, the shoul¬
ders, the way you stand and
who stands with you."

J ones’s current preferred
working method entails
putting (Hi music in the
studio and videotaping

his improvisations — "one-

man marathons," he calls
them. “You can get very de¬
tailed rhythmical sequences
that you never would if you
were thinking about it. And
you don’t have to remember it,
because the camera captures it
all."

' Afterwards, in what Jones
hails as a revolutionary ap¬
proach to his choreography,
he and the rehearsal director,
Janet Wong, extract the move¬
ment they fed works best and
filter it through the dancers'
bodies and sensibilities. “But
recreating it can be hard. You
find you had five things going
on In the body at once. Which
comes first? It's, not always
dear.

"I am very much into a — I
don't want to say ‘cerebral’
approach, but I do think more
about how I move than in the
past, and about the level of
metaphor and soda} stuff on
the stage. I make more choices
about all of that, so that in the
end the work can suggest a
version of us — of a We'."

OThe Bill T. Jones/Amie Zone
Dance Company is at the Peacock

THmre, London (0171-314 8800).
March 17-2!

Sketches
twinned
with wit

OWEN EVANS and Carl Minns,
known collectively as the Nimmo
Twins, do cruel things to words.
They mock phraseology and tor¬
ture intonation for kicks. In their
world of fast-moving sketch com¬
edy. nothing is sacred; even the
litany of the shipping forecast
becomes the account of a man's
night out with his wife, and their
"moderate fo poor" sexual activity.

Most of the Nimmo Twins'
sketches operate by taking a very
distinctive style of communication
and placing it in an inappropriate
context. Thus we have three sets of
couples who take their work home
with them. For the local radio
advertising couple, supper is “the
taste of New Delhi in front of your

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Bill T. Jones: Tm making a brand of theatre which invites you in to dream, to contemplate, to feel emotion"

Hie Nimmo Twins

; Hen anti Chickens, N1

telly"; the newsreaders gel "PLO;
peas, leeks and anions; led by Asda
Marrowfat”; and the MPs are too
busy arguing about the first read¬
ing of the bills to eat anything at ali.
Eventually Mrs MP is questioned
about “her relationship with the
small businessman". Mrs Local
Radio Advertiser extols the virtues
of the hunky young builder next
door with whom “the customer
always comes first", and Mrs
Newsreader announces that she is
“screwed at ten, 720 and a quarter
to nine".

All three scenarios are beautiful¬
ly sustained, bur the fact thar there
are three of them points to a basic
problem with the Nimmos’current
show: they have hit on such a
brilliant technique that they tend to
overuse it Not only do we have a
football commentator working for
the Cambridge Examination
Board, giving the results for Eton v
Hackney Grammar, we also have
commentators analysing the match
at Dunsinane Castle: As the occa¬
sional joke or character reappears,
the material wears a little thin.

It is a shame to cavil, because
when the Nimmo Twins hit the
mark, they do so with genius;
without doubt they are on the brink
of something very exciting indeed.
At their best, such as the sketch of
the zoologist examining the activity
ata“...and Firkin" pub, they not
only indulge their brilliant lan¬
guage skills, but also pass well-
observed comment on the cliches of
contemporary life. Even when pre¬
senting groan-worthy puns, their
intelligence shines through. Radio
4 should snap them up.

Hettte Judah

S ome choreographers need a plot,
some need a prop, and still others
need a platform for psychoanalysis
and politicking. But ail Richard Alston
needs is a good scare and a great group of
dancers to get him going. And ai the
Queen Elizabeth Hall-last week he had
both. '

The music was Red Rum nine songs for
11 musicians, written in 1988 by Hedner
Goebbels fat the choreographer Amanda.
Miller. Alston took, the shorter, tighter
concert version as his chosen score when
he was commissioned to make a new piece

for the 1998 Holland Dance Festival. Its
performances on the South Bank marked
its British premiere.

In a programme note Alston describes
the music, thus.’: “Harsh sometimes ag¬
gressive bursts of upbeat jazz rhythm get -
repeatedly pushed aside by a sense of
foreboding or by keening lament" That is
just the kind of rich suggestiveness Alston
loves, a place where shadows and secrets
lie in wait

————

V ;• - -V--.!/' } : «■“*

- - j

Red Run die dance is not a literal
realisation of the music, but an all-
embracing atmosphere that absorbs the
spirit and mood of Goebbels’s electro¬
acoustic score. The choreography seas up
a garrulous dialogue with the music,
posing taut questions and devising play-'
fill and frantic answers.

At times the six dancers seem to be
cutting their .. way through a dense
undergrowth, or wading heavily through
a great soup of raisL But then the music
changes, and a vivacious violin sets the
dance off into spry phrases, or a laid-back
- trumpet prompts the dancers to grind to a
tiah. Long drawn-out phrases are sudden-
: ly stopped dead, movement is thinned out
and then pumped up in size and speed.
This is dance in its purest sense: bodies
without overtones, partnerships without

agendas, incidents without context Who
needs props and plots when you can have
choreography as good as this?

Thanks to the South Bank's continuing
relationship with the London Sinfanietta,
the dancers —- and the audience — had the
benefit of hearing the Goebbels score
played live. Alston and the Sinfanietta
have worked together before — on a
Birtwistle project in 1996 — and it is a
marriage made in heaven. The.
Sinfanietta, conducted by Nicholas Kok,
played brilliantly. And when Red Run
was followed by Rumours, Visions, and
all we got was a recording of Britten’s Les
Illuminations, it became all the more
obvious what a tremendous impact live
music has on dance.

Alston launched his troupe in 1994 and
it has taken three seasons for the dancers
to find themselves in his choreography.
They now lode more fluid and muscular
than ever. Alston must be pleased.

Debra Craine

■^5

1 uidde have always pro-
. yoked extreme reactions.
f When singer Alan Vega
synthesizer player Martin
first toured Europe in
1, their experimental noise-
frequently caused audi¬
os to hurl shoes, beer cans
chairs at the stage. Even
igh Suicide were afforded
endary" status in the mid-
hties, when a new genera-
of bands began to ate
ti as an influence, Vega
aJ to lose his incendiary
ft — provoking an almost
Eerical barrage of physical
verbal abuse when he
ported pop Will Eat Itself
nndon in I990.

[owever, all that seemed a
i way behind .Suiade as
, began a four-night stmt at

Garage—thdr first proper

ast year the British
Council brought togeth-
Jer four African women

n Mali. Cameroon, Madar

ar and South Africa for a
k-Iong workshop m Swazi-
l Then? they shared and
eloped their differait qjK
sand traditions, adapting
songs and wnti^n^
^Sating a bknd *
aunt voices and lan-

Shnpressive results were

KSdin this ambitious-

Launching no
more offensives

London concerts in ten years
— with a different celebrity DJ
for each show. On Saturday it
was the turn of Fulp singer
Jarvis Cocker, whose, stage
moves owe at lean something
to Vega's exaggerated sense of
camp.

The passing years, and vari¬

ous advances in technology,
seem to have made little
difference to Suicide. The duo
were dressed, as always, in
black — Vega’s features ob¬
scured by m a tching shades,
his customary beret and a haze
of rigarene smoke — and It
was easy to see why their
deafening racket might once
have been deemed so offen¬
sive. This time round, though,
there was hushed reverence
for the new material and
shouts of recognition for old
favourites from their debut

Chemistry sets

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an uplifting evening in which
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magic,

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COMPUTER EVIDENCE 43
LAW REPORT 22

DOUGLAS H JEFFERY

up for a
great act

T he outcome of a crimi¬
nal trial does, occa¬
sionally, tum on the
barrister’s perfor¬
mance. The most memorable
example I witnessed came in
Court No 1 at the Old Bailey
during the trial of a theatre
director on the charge of
procuring an act of gross
indecency.

His crime was to have
directed Howard Brental's
The Romans in Britain at the
National Theatre [in 1980].
Maty hitehouse sent her solici¬
tor to collect evidence, and
when the Anomey-Generai
refused to act, she privately
prosecuted Michael Bogda¬
nov, the play's director.
Jeremy Hutchinson, QC, led
me in the National’s defence.

Our task was not easy. The
"gross indecency” law — Sec¬
tion J3 of the Sexual Offences
Act — applies only to males,
usually those who masturbate
in "public places” such as
parks or toilets. But for die
purposes of this statute, the
National Theatre was no dif¬
ferent from a public toilet
(architecturally, it resembles
one) and Michael Bogdanov
was, providentially, a male
(had the play been directed by
Michelle Bogdanov, the case
could not have been brought).

The act was of course “inde¬
cent" — that was the point, in
Bremen's sprawling and pro¬
foundly moral canvas about
the barbarity erf ethnic conflict.
But alas, the rales of evidence
did not allow the jury to see the
play, or any filmed re-enact¬
ment of it, or even to read the
script All they would be
permitted to hear, live in
evidence, was the prosecu¬
tion’s eyewitness.

This was Mrs Whitehouse’s
solicitor, who swore that he *
had observed from his seat in
the Olivier Theatre an actor
dressed as a Roman soldier
take off his tunic, hold his .
penis in his hand with the tip
protruding, walk across the
stage and place the said tip
againsr the buttocks Df an
actor playing a Druid.

The trial started in Court 1,
the Old Bailey's equivalent of
the Olivier auditorium. The
judge’s entrance was accompa¬
nied by the traditional extras —
gowned aldermen carrying the
sword and the mace.. There
were a lot of journalists, lured
by tire promise of druidic

Look who’s
flouting the
Bar code

THE chambers of the Lord
Chancellor. Lord Irvine of
Lairg. QC at II Kings Bench
Walk, is flouting the Bar code
of conduct — and that's offi¬
cial. The sin of the chambers
is to describe itself as a
“leading set”.

The latest issue of Bar
News contains a warning
from the Bar Council’s profes¬
sional conduct and com¬
plaints committee that bar¬
risters are forbidden both
from making comparisons
with other barristers and
turn making . statements
about “the quality of their
work, the size or suttessof
their practice or their sucres 3
rate” Bar News concludes:

foul of the code
’s ref is one of

Vebsites contain
words.

buggery, and “resting" barris¬
ters curious _ to observe a
celebrated trial. The. audience
which mattered was the jury.

We had challenged a few
jurors with tabloids under
their arms: although, as
Shakespeare said, there's no
art to tell the mind's construc¬
tion from the face, you do get
some idea of the mind if the
nose is in The Sun.

The prosecution called its
. star witness: Maty White-
house’s solicitor. Mr Graham
Ross-Comes. who swore he
had seen the actor’s penis,
hand-held and erect. He was
plainly a truthful witness, and
our problem was how to shake
his recollection.

It was important to discover
where he was sitting, so I had -
brought a seating plan of the-
auditorium. Jeremy was reluc¬
tant to inquire: counsel haze
asking questions to which they
do not know (or at least
strongly suspect) the answer,
and it stood to reason that
anyone collecting eyewitness
evidence against a play would
sit in the front row.

Nervously, he beckoned the
usher to lake the plan over to
the witness. “Now, Mr Ross-
Comes. will you please mark
on this seating plan exzzctfy-
where you were sitting when ■
you think you saw the tip erf
the third soldier’s erect penis?”

Let the women in
on the gossip

Under occupation: Druids face their would-be masters in The Romans in Britain

W e held our collec¬
tive breath, as the
witness silently
marked the spot,
and the usher slowly carried
this crucial evidence back to
Jeremy. He choked back an
exclamation of joy. Mrs
Whifehouse had sal her solici¬
tors in tile gods.

. 'The back row! You sat in
the back row! You got to this
theatre, knowing your task is
to collect evidence for a very
serious prosecution of my
.diexit, a man who has never
‘ committed a single offence in
his life, on a very nasty charge,
and you sit in the back rov/T
Jeremy was wonderful, his
high-pitched. Bloomsbury
voice rising in mock horror,
detonating Utile'explosions of
ridicule. -I passed him some
ammunition, a note Jrom Peter
Hall — die back row-of the
Olivier is 90 yards from the
stage. “Ninety yards from the
stage! Did you know it was 90
yardsfrom the stage? Do you -

can you - swear on oath to his
Lordship and to the jury that
you are certain you saw the tip
of a penis from a distance of
90 yards from the wage?”

Mr Ross-Comes was shak¬
en, but not stirred. That was
achieved by the most daring
piece of i mp r omptu cross-ex¬
amination I have ever wit¬
nessed.

“Do you go to the theatre
much, Mr Ross-Comes?"
Jeremy inquired sweetly. The
witness confirms that he doe
go to' the theatre, but not
much. “I go to pantomimes
and such tike.” '*'

Q: “You know that theatre, is
the art of illusionT .

A:.. “If you ,say. so, : Lord _
Hutchinson.”" •

Q: “Arid, as part of that
illusion, actors use physical
gestures to convey impressions
to an audience?"

A: “Yes, 1 would accept that."

Q: “And from the back row, 90
yards from the stage, you can
be certain that what you saw
-was the tip of the actor's
penis?"

A: “Well, if you put it that way.

I cant be absolutely certain.
But what else could it have
been?"

There is a wise adage for

Chancellor's Department tins
week. It asks whether there
should be changes to the law
on bow (he courts in England
and Wales determine paternity.

It also asks whether it is.
right to make it easier .for
unmarried fathers to acquire
parental - responsibility for.
their children, subject to safe¬
guards, and secondly, wheth¬
er automatic parental respon¬
sibility should be limited to
certain categories of un-

Lord Irvine in chambers

married fathers, such as those
who register a child’s birth
jointly with the mother.

Under the Children Act
1989, unmarried fathers can
acquire parental responsi¬
bility by going to court or
making an agreement with
the child's mother. But they
do not have automatic paren¬
tal responsibility because of
the need, it was thought to
protect vulnerable unmarried
mothers and those in violent
relationships.

• The Lord Chancellor will
this week present the prizes in
the Times Law Awards com¬
petition held with One Essex
Court chambers. The win-
• ning entry will be published
in these pages next week

Juiy danger

RESEARCH into how juries
conduct their work looks a
long way off

In view of the Govem-
- merit’s recent ' consultation
paper on whether .juries
should he scrapped in fraud
cases. Lord Borne QC for¬
mer Director-General of Fair
Trading, asked the Govern¬
ment whether It would not be
better to lift the ban on jury

witnesses: never ask counsel a
question. Jeremy stood to his
- full height 6ft 3in in his wig,
and pushing aside his lectern
with his left hand, he held out
towards the jury his denched
right fist•

“What you saw, I suggest
was the tip of the actor's
thumb ..." (he slowly raised
his right thumb, until it stood
erect protruding an inch from
his fist) “as he held his fist over
his groin — tike this."

. Jeremy flung open his silk
gown with his left hand while
pladng his right fist thumb
erect over “his own groin. It
was a coup de thedtre more
dramatic than any our dient
.had achieved in The Romans
in Britain. The jurors stared
transfixedly at the QCs simu¬
lated, erection. The witness
opened and dosed his mouth.

At last he rallied: "1 cant see
dearly. Lord Hutchinson.
Your gown is in the way.“
Jeremy swivelled in his dinec-
• tion, holding the pose.

Eventually, the crestfallen
Mr Ross-Comes had to.admit
-that yes, he may have been
mistaken. He cculd not rule
out the possibility that it
might, indeed, have been a
thumb he had described from

research and to find out how
juries reached verdicts before
deddiag to scrap the jury
system altogether.

But the traditional opposi¬
tion among barristers to such
research persists. Lord Hoo-
son. QC, said during the
debate that this would be a
dangerous course because it
would involve inquiring into
a jury’s judgment which was
“independent and autho¬
ritative”. Lord Irvine said he
was conscious of the argu¬
ment that jury service was
burdensome enough without
jurors being “interrogated
about the ebb and Sow of
their deliberations in the jury
room",

A new unify

SOUTH AFRICA’S lawyers
of all races will be united into
a single profession for the first
time later (his month with the
creation of a new Law Society
of South Africa.

The society is the product
of a merger between South
Africa’s white-dominated pro¬
vincial Law Societies and the
Black Lawyers* Association
and National Association of
Democratic Lawyers.

The new body’s consti¬
tution contains a commitment
to strive towards building a
“non-radal, non-sexist organ¬
isation.

the back row of the gods. Soon
afterwards, the prosecution
was withdrawn, with costs
(which would pay for two new
productions) awarded to the
National Theatre.

The Justice Game has rules
which in this case, by exclud¬
ing all evidence of artistic
purpose or merit, stacked the
odds heavily against the de¬
fence. The scales were tipped
back by a “thumbs up” de¬
fence advanced by a QC who
had two qualities I suspect are
essential in a great advocate:
forensic courage, and an in¬
stinctive sense of mischief.

• This is on edited extract from
The Justice Game (Charto &
Windus. £20) by Geoffrey Robert¬
son, QC.

I n the biggest robing room controversy
since a county court judge fined a
barrister for smoking there in 1925. a
number of women barristers are submitting
that the robing rooms at the Royal Courts of
Justice in London should be made unisex.
Such robing room advocacy deserves the
support of all lawyers.

There are currently, three robing rooms for
men and one for women. They contain
lockers (at an annual cost of £135. plus VATJ,
telephones and lavatories, as well as space for
barristers to put on theirworking clothes and
transform themselves into advocates. Cleopa¬
tra. preparing for death, says to her atten¬
dant. Iras: “Give me my robe, put on my
crown; I have immortal longings in me."
Lawyers (some with their clerks performing
die supporting role of Iras) take out their
robes and put on their wigs, and then go off to
court hoping to make immortal submissions
— or at least submissions that will not hasten
the death of their clients' case.

But the robing room is not
simply a place in which law-
yers dress for work. Legal HRS’**
business may be done there. f_

An extreme example con-
cems a young, penniless bar-
rister, Edward Marshall Hall, vV / Cl
who sat gloomily in the robing
room at the Old Bailey in 1884.

According to Marshall Hall’s yBP 1

biographer, Edward Marjori- piss'

banks, “a busy junior in a Vv-^

great hurry rushed in with a _

large brief", saw the young
barrister and asked him to VrCHJj

assist Marshall Hall obtained ' '
a tenancy in chambers as a n*

result and went on to find t-stK

fame and fortune as the lead- PANN:

ing criminal advocate of his
generation.

On a more regular basis, the robing room
is where lawyers about to go into court learn
the latest gossip about their colleagues and
the judiciary. Barristers tentatively explore
whether the interests of their respective
clients might be better served by a compro¬
mise than by subjecting their dispute to trial
by ordeal before one of Her Majesty’s judges.

If negotiation cannot resolve the matter,
then counsel warm up for the hearing by
robing room advocacy to try out possible
submissions, many of which are then wisely
left on the robing room floor rather than used
in court

All of these discussions are. as lawyers say.
without prejudice. On one celebrated occa¬
sion. a barrister who threatened to tell the
judge about information that he had been
given in confidence in the robing room was
warned that he would receive a punch on the
nose, which speedily persuaded him to
abandon any thought of so fundamental a
breach of legal ethics.

Outsiders enter this legal world at their

David
Pannick qc

peril. At die Old Bailey in I9QZ a solicitor's
clerk was convicted of stealing a barrister's
wig and was conditionally discharged for
three years and ordered lo pay £200 costs.

Geoffrey Robertson. QC, explains that his
new book. The Justice Game (Chatto & Win¬
dus, £20. an excerpt is printed at left), is “a
view from the robing room, a place as impor¬
tant as the jury room and the police canteen
in the hidden culture of the English adver¬
sary system". In providing access to one of
the inner sanctums of the legal world, it is no
more sensible to segregate barristers by sex
than it would be to segregate them by race.

There are no privacy and decency consider¬
ations raised by putting on wigs, gowns and
court collars. On the rare occasions when
barristers change their shirts in tile robing
room, they expose themselves to little more
than ridicule. As Michael Bdoff. QC
inquired in about 19S0 when a well-fed silk
(who had better remain nameless) look off his
shin in the (unisex) robing
room at the Privy Council:
“Can Muhammad Aii come
back for the fourth time?"

Indeed, a large proportion of
^0 tire robing rooms in English
"i courts, as well as the salle des

avocats in the European Court
W of Justice in Luxembourg, are
already unisex without caus-
/ JfF ing problems. If male and

female barristers can dress
^/vr together in the robing room of

□Z_ the House of Lords, it is

impossible to understand why
IvCL (hey cannot do so in the Royal

—-- Courts of Justice.

fTT-\ Advocates for reform have to

acknowledge that unisex rob-
rK QC ing rooms offer the potential
■■■■■ for mischief. Last week the Bar
Council fined a male barrister
£500 for sexual harassment of his female
pupil. She had complained that when she
asked if there was any work she could dp for
her pupil master, he had replied that he
would like to “take [her] over the couch in the
robing room”.

T he Bar Council was not persuaded by
the barrister's defence that the robing
room at the Guildford Crown Court “is
small, with people coming in and out all the
time, and has a large plate-glass window
taring the car park".

The robing rooms at the Royal Courts of
Justice lack a large window facing a car park.
But. even so, reform is long overdue. The
presence of women may also have the
incidental advantage of encouraging men to
dean up the mess they tend to leave behind,
although (in the case of some female
advocates) the language to be heard may
become less dean.

• The author is a practising barrister and a Fellow
of All Souls College. Oxford.

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In addition Sebastian Prentis and David Warner have accepted invitations
to join Chambers following the completion of their pupillages.

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Michael Kennedy
John McDonnell QC
James Munby QC
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A re computers poised to supplant
the importance of live witnesses
and eloquent advocacy? Experts
claim that just three minutes of
'computer animation can influence a jury
more than, half an- hour of brilliant
moratory. “Demonstrative evidence," as it is
;known, is big business in America,
j Demonstrative evidence is most com*
•monly used in dvfl cases in which
complex concepts have to be clarified for
juries. It can-also be useful in criminal
trials. This week’s appeal in Boston.
Massachusetts, against the conviction of
Louise Woodward. the£nglish au pair, is
exactly the kind of trial in which
sophisticated computer animations could
be used.

Deanne Siemer, a Washington-based
lawyer and the author" of Tangible
Evidence — the third edition of which was
recently published by the National Insti¬
tute for Trial Advocacy in the US —
believes that computer graphics could
have been used to demonstrate the effects
of shaking on a baby's brain.

She says: “If the jury could have
pictured the baby's skull, it would have
been very useful" Richard Suss kind, pro¬
fessor of law, an adviser to Lord Woolf on
his civil justice reforms and a consultant
on computers and die courts, adds: “It
occurred to me at die time that the use of
graphics would have presented, more
powerful images." And who knows what
would have happened in the OJ. Simpson
trial had computer animation shown
whether his hand fited into the glove, or
his feet the Bruno Magli shoes?

Ms Siemer specialises in “long, difficult
civil cases involving intellectual proper¬
ties and slippery issues about complicated
mechanisms that are difficult to explain in
words". Hence, she began to develop

"1*. V ..V.. =

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A revolution

waiting to

demonstrative evidence — evidence that
transcends the written and spoken word
still prevalent in British courts.

She says: “I came to London a couple of
years ago to speak at a judges' conference
on technology and the law. J brought all
my American whiz-bang things — my
touch-screens, my voice-activation and
my computer animations —and a judge
put up his hand and said that die real
problem was when they introduced
copiers. How do you deal with that?"

Professor Susskind, pie author of The
Future of Lew, soon, to be out in paperback
(OUP. £13.99). says: “The main difference
between the US and UK is often cultural
rather than technical. But in the future it
Is unlikely that documents before courts
here will be pure text... they wall be
multimedia. I think the judiciary here is
now open to the . use of technology —
almost half use computers."

Julie Campbell, who runs Legal Video
in Boston. Massachusetts, emphasises the
importance of demonstrative evidence
being produced by companies such as

hers that understand the rules of evi¬
dence, rather than by advertising or
computer graphics companies, as is
sometimes the case.

“It has to be objective,” she says. “Ours
is one of a handful of reputable specialist
firms. Some people try to get their
demonstrative evidence from people who
make wedding videos."

M s Campbell can testify in
oourt a bout the objectivity of
her company's work, which
is carefully designed to re¬
flect the reality of the situation rather than
a client's whim. “If we're asked to do, say.
a video or animated reconstruction of an
accident and it doesn’t turn out the way
our client wants it to. that's too bad." she
says. “He doesn't have to show it in court,

. but we wont twist the truth.*

Yet she specialises in heartrending “day
in the life" videos of personal injury cases
such as that of Eugene Doran, a healthy
man until he was paralysed while sitting
in a barber’s chair by a nail from a nail

gun being used by a contractor on the
other side of the wall. In 1988 he won a
record 515-3 million (about £10 million},
largely because of the powerful evidence
Ms Campbell produced.

Ms Siemer says: “if you have a really
good oralist (sicj versus a dreadful one.
you can level the playing field with
demonstrative evidence. It can succeed
against the slickest advocate." But if you
have a slick advocate such as Barry
Scheck — who appeared in the Simpson
and Woodward trials—using siate-ol-the-
art animations, where will that lead?

“God help us if lawyers like Barry
Scheck start producing" demonstrative
evidence," says Ms Campbell. Ms Siemer
looks forward to “duds between anima¬
tions — with the animation bring a
witness in itself”. She revels in the idea of
“cross-examining" a computer animation.

“You have to get the animation from the
other side, then present your case through
their animation — melding your files with
their files while cross-examining," she
says, enthusiastically. “It'S an emerging
field, and must be dealt with correctly,
according to rules of evidence.

“Normally," she says, “when you have
duelling experts, the jurors do nor have
the technical expertise to deride between
them, so they go for who they like the best
or who they dunk the judge likes the best.
With animations, they think they're
making up thdr own minds—and that is
extremely powerful"

• For enthusiasts and those who fear that the
truth may get lost somewhere along the way. the
National Institute for Trial Advocacy is
holding a Courtroom of the Future conference
at William and Maty Law School in Williams¬
burg, Virginia, in September. Details: NITA,
1602 North Ironwood, South Bend, Indiana,
USA 46635.

W hen relatives
of those
killed or in¬
jured in the
disaster at the Hills¬
borough football stadium
in I <859 sued Yorkshire
police for the shock they
had suffered, it led to
fresh guidelines on when
a person can claim dam¬
ages caused by someone's
negligence.

In what became the
leading case of Alcock v
Chief Constable of South Andrew

House of Lords rejected ahnvp r
the relatives' daims but 1X1 _ 1
specified the drawn- an J mrr

stances as to when people «mu COIT
could claim.

First a close tie of love IOr men
and affection with the
person killed or injured. Secondly, close¬
ness to the accident in time and space.
Thirdly, direct perception of the accident
rather than, for example, hearing about it
from a friend. It was further recognised
that special, more lenient principles
apply to rescuers.

In the Hillsborough litigation this
meant that some relatives at the stadium
who suffered psychiatric illness were able
to obtain damages, as were police officers
who carried out rescue work. But relatives
who saw the tragedy unfold on television
and later identified the bodies of loved
ernes at the stadium could not win
compensation for their psychiatric illness.

In another case, a father suffered
psychiatric illness on the death of his son
three days after the boy was injured in a
road accident The father was unable to
recover damages from the negligent
driver. He had gone directly to the
hospital and sar at his son's bedside for
three days before his life-support system
was switched off. He was unable to
recover damages because he was not dose
enough in time and space to the accident
Had his son died within hours of arrival
at the hospital, and the father had then
seen his body, he would have been able to
recover.

Today, in a report with an accompany¬
ing draft Bill, the Law Commission
recommends legislation to reform the law.
Responses to our consultation paper
confirmed that distinctions of the kind
made in the two cases above are regarded
as insensitive and arbitrary. How, (hen,
should the law be reformed?

At one extreme, it can be argued that
because drawing a satisfactory line be¬
tween liability and no-liability is so
difficult in this area, all liability for
psychiatric illness suffered as a result of
another person's death or injury should
be abolished. But only a tiny minoriiy

Andrew Burrows,
above, on the law
and compensation
for mental illness

supported this app r oach;
it was thought out of
keeping with medical un¬
derstanding of psychiat¬
ric illness and that it
would exclude many de¬
serving cases.

Though some people
are sceptical about
whether psychiatric ill¬
ness is "real", evidence
indicates that it can have
devastating effects an
people. And to reiterate:
we are not talking about
iurrows mere mental distress. The

K laintiff has to prove that
6 or she is suffering a
recognisable psychiatric

pnentinn raused ^ the de_

5118311011 fendanrt negligence. At

1 ninocc * e other extreme, all the

u miwao special restrictions could

be removed, so that liabil¬
ity for psychiatric illness would be
brought into line with liability for
physical injury. This was supported by
many of those we on the commission
consulted. But our review of the medical
research into psychiatric illness led us to
conclude that, at least at this stage in the
law’s development, some spedaJ restric¬
tions on liability are necessary in order to
avoid the risk of opening the floodgates of
litigation.

We think the most rational and fairest
way to limit liability is by reference to the
relationship between the plaintiff and the
person killed or injured.

So we have recommended to die Lord
Chancellor, lord Irvine of Laing. that the
restrictions based on closeness to the
accident, and direct perception of it.
should be removed; but that the require¬
ment for a dose tie of love and affection
should in general be retained. We have
also recommended that no specific reform
is needed to the law on rescuers.

Our draft Bill provides a list of those
relationships where there shall be deemed
to be a dose tie of love and affection be
tween the plaintiff and the person killed or
injured (spouse, parent, child, brother or
sister, cohabitant) but also allows those
not on the list to prove a dose tie existed.

Our proposals would mean that a
mother who can prove that she has
suffered psychiatric Illness as a result of
seeing her son's sudden dead], and a
mother who can. prove that she has
suffered psychiatric illness as a result of
watching her son slowly die in hospital,
would both be entitled to damages from
foe negligent defendant responsible.

• Pmfeaor Burrows is Professor of English law
at University College London, and a Law
Commissioner for England and Wales. Liabil¬
ity for Psychiatric Illness. Law Commission
Report No. 2® (Stationery Office. £16351 The
text of the report is available on the Internet at:

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there’s mutual suitability. Fewer
candidates are submitted iw<
way. but when they are suborned
they’re in wilh an excellem
chance, and there shouldn't be a
need for ’peemasioa'.

We also treat oar co ns u lt a nt s
as adults. We pay well, bat we
don't p re ssure them with a
system of uugets and bonuses.
We don't set them to compere
with each other for the highest
’sales’figures. We have team
players, and anyone who joins ns
will enjoy working in oar team
Michael Oianbers

INDUSTRY Sonya Raynor, Morwenna Lewis. Aficen Shepherd, Fiona BoxaH

Media/Publlshing: London

Pubfisbmgforoadcastmg co seeks lawyer 1-3 years’ pqe
to handle Ifod and ITC work, noo-contentioas meefia,
comiiKiCTal contract drafting and employment issues.

Commercial Lawyer: M4 Corridor

Commerdal lawyer with 2-5 years' pqe far expmdmg
dept of wefi-known iniemaionai services cou^jany to
handle general commercial low. contract negotiation
and employment law. In-house background desirable.

Global Corporate: London
3-5 year pqe corporate lawyer with ability to sec the
global picture needed by international company with
Japanese connections. A good understanding of EC
ami general conqxmy/commercial low is important.

Housebuilder: Midlands

National housebuilder seeks senior lawyer with
experience of residential housing far m a n age m ent
role. Junior staff handle plot sates, leaving you free to
focus on complex transactions.

Legal Adviser: London

Energetic bxtdwoiking and commercially minded young
lawyer to join HQ of major international manufacturing
pk. Must have sound aVcomm experience and enjoy
working m a very fast moving stimubting mvnpnmenL

Charily/Property: South Wales

Charity and commercial property specialist is needed
by charity with a small legal department. Experience
of trusts and a flexible management style is important.

PRIVATE PRACTICE London: David Wooffson, Simon Anderson, Paul Thomas
SOUTH: Nod Murray, Hedtey Wa/sh NORTH: Suki Bahia

Banking Partner: City
Wonderful opportunity for mafostreani banking
solicitor to head new group in one of the teadng
accountant-retaled law firms.

Corporate: City

Top tea practice with the best Fortune 500 client list
in the City seeks 1-5 year qualified solicitor for broad
caseload inducting listings and cross-border M&A.

Head of London Office: W1
Successful Manchester firm seeks ambitious partnor
with commercial litigation rod employment experience
and a part fbQawing to head its new London office.

Snr Company/Commercial: Central London

Circa 50 partner firm committed to farther expansion
of an already strong corporate dept seeks senior
assistant on cusp of partnership or junior partner.

Insolvency: City

Niche insolvency practice with superb client base offers
quality woric and real career prospects to 1-2 year qnal
insolvency lawyer wilh an interest in marketing.

Private Client: City
Leading private client practice with glamorous
clientele seeks I-3 year qualified sotiatorfcE broad
caseload with emphasis on trusts and tax planning.

Intellectual Property: City
City office of successful national firm seeks 1-3 year
qualified IP litigator to join its high profile IP team id
handle patent, TM and passing off disputes.

Commercial Property: Holborn

Medium-sized p rop erty-led firm with friendly
working environment seeks 0-1 yr qualified solicitor
for blue chip institutional and developer clientele.

Employment: WC2
LJostufiy WC2 firm with strong corporate and IT
jsacoce seeks NQ-I year employment lawyer to assist a
partner on contentious and non-contentions emptoymenL

Defendant Medical Negligence: London

Rated practice with heavy NHS involvement seeks to
s ti e u g t j mi its respected medneg dept at jnr rod sarfcwd.
Relevant estpoe essential from regkaial or London firms.

HOUSE LITIGATION
MANAGER

cenfr ica

Centrica Is a FT5E 100 company with
a 1997 turnover of £7.84 bn
providing energy and energy-related
products and services to homes and
businesses in the UK under the
trading name of. British Gas. The
company was created a year ago as a
result of the British Gas demerger
allowing it to concentrate more
effectively on its diverse core markets
which indude gas supply and trading,
serviang and installation, retail and
the operation of its Mo recam be
gas fields.

An opportunity has arisen for an
astute and organised litigation
manager to join the company at its
offices in Stain®. This is a newly
created position reporting to the
Legal Manager of British Gas Services:
Overseeing the work of two legal

executives, the role will require the -
successful candidate to advise on a
high volume of civil and employment
litigation; managing and instructing
external counsel when the situation
requires and representing the •
company at industrial Tribunals.
Achieving fast and cost effective
settlements of claims will be a vrtaf
part of the rote. • -r .-

The successful candftlate will be a
qualified Solicitor, with 2-4 years' PQE
in general civil litigation, induding .
strong contentious emftoymerrt
knowledge and in-depth experience
of County Court defendant work:
More importantly, candidatesshould
be highly organised arid target-driven
lawyers able to forge stroog working
relatfondiips with key personnel
both within the Group arid externally.'
Applicants must be able to
demonstrate the abilhy-fo work
proactively to reduce costs and to
achieve early settlement of daims.

The successful candidate can expect a
competitive basic salary and benefits
package which includes a car and
fferformanoe-rdated bonus.

If you believe you can meet our
requirement^ please contact our
retameif advising consultant,
lindsey Newman at In-House Legal,
first Hobr, High HoJbom House, -
52-54 High Hofbom, London
WC1V 6RL Ifet 6171 405 0151.

Fax: 0171 B31649& ...

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5ndseynevvmanehwgroup^om
http^/www. hwgroup.com •

IN-HOUSE

BIRMINGHAM • .LEEDS » LONDON • MANCHESTER!

IN-HOIBElfCAL

A BUND or IHE WV GftOUP

INVESTOR IN PEOPLE

EMPLOYMENT LAW

IDS Britf requires a lawyer to provide maternity otmar fo the team ranaiehiag rod writing
on employment law for the fjunnighijy journal and a range of bandboota used by pcmonncl
manages, osiotn, tawyen aod tribunal*- IDS Brief ii the legal dep ar tme n t at Incomes Data
Services, the XJK*s lrarfing indep e ndent employment research oiganaatxai.

Appfiaoro should have studied anptoyinem taw at lent to degree leveL and should hare
exedfem writing sfcffls. A demonstrable h flercst in employment law is essential and

practical experience would be a dutmet advantage. Applicants most be sdf-tfattea, aMe to
work to drwffiivis as pan of a small team. Basie Emaharsy with word p ro c e s sing is
neasg a y. and interpcraanal skills are iinpra taig.

SttRing sdwy wiU dqiend on quaUficatioss and experience, hoc will he in the range
£17,970 u OOjTTO pins banns with five weeks* holiday. This appointment will be a one'
yes- fixed tenn contract.

A Iener of application capt ai n i ng tow you fit onr mqmnancng pins a CV should be sere
tot

JtBBj Bril, ArinriniTtrifinn Manager, IDS BrMC,

77 Bastwfcfc Street, Lrodon BCIV 3TT

Ynnrtotw Knmw w l » p hnn « ii imJiw t and mwl narii

ns by Friday, 20h March.

The Partners of

JACKSON PARTON

are pleased to amkounce that

with effect from 1st March 1998 -

NIGEL WATERSON MP

has joined the partnership.

Jackson Partem

Shipping and Commercial Solicitors
5th floor
28 Mansell Street
London El 8AA

Tel: 0271 702 0085 Fax: 0171 702 0858
Tlx: 8812084 SEALAW G

LEGAL AFFAIRS
MANAGER

C£30K

. A leading trade body in fee advertising sector,
tbe Direct Marketing Assodation' fUKj’ Ltd, Is
looking for a bright and articulate person with
legal qualifications, drafting skills, and relevant :
commercial experience to assist tee Director of
Legal Affairs in:

• Lobbying on prospective legislation.

• Negotiating the imptanentation of BU
Directives in tee UEL

• Developing new self-regulatory initiatives.

• Advising members on legal and c o mma rial
matters.

Tbe DMA (UK) has over 700 nienibec
organisations operating in die test grow ing
direct marketing sector, and a staff of 25.

Its offices ate m Piccadilly and prospects of
advancement are good for the right candBdate.

Please apply to tbe Director of Legal Affairs,
Direct Marketing Association (UK) Udr
Baypuket House, 1 Oxendan Street, London
SW1Y 4EE giving details of
qual ffications^elevant c xpaiaace.

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In our US, European and Japanese investment banking clients . •

CAPn-AL MARKETS T./MMm naueBAf BUAtiM r.n

To£80,000

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mortals buyers wtii M jbbV pqe so«ok on cqtfcy Snandng irtn but k vA
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CAPITAL MARKETS . To £7(000+ito/Htf

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«nd» noting ihb opening a. a top bnmatiaml hnowa bank especbly good.
Wkh fj yean' pqe In gmerai fanfcfng or gpfeai motes work, you w* enjojra
sprad of capital markets and more general commerce! naoers.ltc£TB43270

M*A ATTORNEY To £150,000

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EXECUTION GROUP To £15(000

"The praapeos of rapid promotion and same of the best booses amend are vary
nri at diis cop taenarimal invesonent tank, espeda^r Fjwj an a capon*
Smoe toivyorvvtii 3+ yean? pqe from i mp Coy trm. You v 4i be weriikg on
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Please cnflWUafn Code. A&son Jacobs or Seamat Hoar fad quoted IcwyeaJ on 017M05 6052 (0171-403 5727 or
0171-7315M e* e nh p / ta t k B*is )Mett m alrKlf wauro them at QD Legal-BankUe,

37-41 Bedford tow, London WOR 4JH Gmftfcmte (be QI71-831 6394.

Good Job Hunting

PRIVATE PRACTICE

tinimwMlnl to CASK

Gtyt Major firm has unusual
role for lawyer 1-4 PQE to assist
on national /international issues
encompassing corporate finance,
property and litigation matters.

CByi Three of the City V biggest
preperty.ftnra actively seek
litigators NQ-3PQE to handle
L&T, T954 Act renewals, rant
reviews and service charges.

CByi Major firm urgently s eeks
IP specialist, ideally with s c ien tific
background to hande potent
titigation & liaise between junior
assistants and junior partners.

CHyt Inti law firm seeks banking/ CHys Insolvency experts with a tmmgkmkx Well established firm
asset finance lawyers !o 5PQE to minimum of 1PQE up to partner seeks two lawyers 3-4PQE to join
deal with ship, aircraft or rolling level are sought by major City corp o rate group; one to hands
Stock finance work on high value firm to join it* growing corporate commercial work, the other
projects. recovery/re-orgarasorton team. . insolvency/re-organisation issues.

iVsp stty * to CM K IB/fswpilWss toCMK Cstpsrtes toC«

CHyj Prestigious finn has several Le e Ao e/K r—ee l s i Gly trained CByi US qualified securitise
roles for top natch lawyers NQ- lawyers NQ-5PQE sought by lawyer 1-6PQE sought by Gty

4PQE to work with partners on large firm to advise on, inter alio, firm. Candidates are likely to

high quality matters. Exp of the applicability of EC directives. ' have connections with, and

brownfield site acquisitions useful Bihar location available. knowledge of, the UK scene.

IN-HOUSE

NHIsHsg sCMK

L e e ds i Publishing co seeks
legal adviser with 1 -3PQE and
media background Exp in
defamation, flC-telatad work, I?
litigation & employment matters.

N C—1—l North American
telecoms co seels lawyer 5PQE+ _
to act as UK sole legal adwser.~
Must hove sKCsUsnt tefacoRS. / -
Bxp on enca. Overseas travel.

■

Peylijs i tniik ' - itUM
Lewtom Top benefits co seals a
lawyer NQ-1pQEto specialise in
employee benefits work.-Will
train up. bright condidatas with a
tax/ co r por ate background.

Derivatives c Mil fcme

CByi European finondal • *
institution seels lawyer 2PQE-lr .
to liaka with btislnewfine, crecfit
-dept and bock office. Knowledge
of IS DA master agree m ents vital.

CMeee «CMK

L ee ti ei Junior lawyer sought
by leading P&| Club to handle .
dairas work for architects'
--dhisraa W0t traiii up bright

Ciepllni «CHK+lees

CByi. lawyer 3PQE+ sought by
UK based investmerd banking
group to deal with compliance
within the corporate and
structured finance department.

cselanein-house tale, sought by.
Ml. financiol institution to deal
• 'with regulatory, trading, systems
risk control arid employment.. -

Ketati toCMK

HCmbNwi Household name
seeks several lawyers to join
Irodng law standards group.

A senior rote involves policy .
formulation & consumer effuirs. ,

Par further information
about these position, or
to discuss the various
career options available,
contact;

Andrew Nelson
Deborah Knowles
Lynne McCarroU
Lucy Boyd

UPSON LJLOYD-JONES

LEGAL RECRUITMENT

Qtyi US bonk seeks lawyer 1
3-5PQE to provide advice on
'asset securitisation, corporate^ •
project finance, structured credit
end tat driven transactions.

London Practice • In-House

COMMERCIAL NQ-2yrs

Rarc opportunity in rbis small,
innovative City firm to handle an
extendve range of pure commercial
work (with a strong int ern a ti onal flavour)
in a congenial environment. Languages
preferred.

EMPLOYMENT 2-4yrs

This friendly Hoibom finn is hi^bly
regarded in this field and, due to fantastic
growth in the last year, now seeks an
additional lawyer to join their young
team. A real opportunity to make a
mark in a supportive team environment.

MED NEG NQ-2yrs/4-5jrs

This thriving niche practice is pre-
enufleeffinthis field and its long standing
reputation and first class client base
ensures top quality work. A 2:1 degree
is preferred.

FAMILY l-3yrs

Great opportunity in this highly regarded
Mayfair practice to undertake a broad
raqge of matrimonial work with the
emphasis cm ancillary' relief. Outgoing
personality essential in ibis lively
atmosphere.

KNOW HOW Fall/Part time
We are instructed on a munber of know
how positions (for lawyers 2yrs+ pqe)
in Corporate, Property, IP AT, Projects.

Rank i n g , P ypitaf | Kartm< Employment

and Pensions. An excellent alternative
to taqg hours and time sheets!

PERSONAL INJURY NQ-lyr
leading finn with excellent reputation
seeks 0-12roth pqe defendant personal
injury solicitor. Strong academics are

X-BORDER CORPORATE 4-7yrs
Facing partnershipTwaleneric? One of
the success stories of recent years, otu-
client is seeking to add to its already
impressive team by remuing a senior
lawyer for frontline M&A/MBO role.
Outstanding prospects at firm which
offers genuine alternative to major City
practices.

ENVIRONMENTAL LIT l-4yre
OneofLoodon's leading practices, our
client now seeks an ambitious lawyer
for a broad content ious/non-cont.
caseload as well as involvement in
crisis management learn. Key role in
team's growth.

COMMERCIAL PROP 6mtbsr2yrs
c.15 partner City practice with strong
property reputation seeks bright lawyer
for wide-ranging caseload with no
corporate support work. Small ream
offering friendly working environment
and opportunity for life outside the
office.

CORPORATE l-4yrs

Excellent a role offering extensive
client contact and wide-tanging caseload
Friendly c.30 partner firm which has
recruited large numbers of lawyers
seeking an alternative to a large firm
atmosphere.

TRAINING MANAGER Part time
Unique part time (3/4 days p/w) role at
London finn which includes advising
on all aspects of training, graduate
recruitment and some involvement in
marketing. Good organisational skills,
strong academic background and a lively
and creative approach are vital.

INTELLECTUAL PROP 3-Syrs
W. London - Busmess-mmda} TP lawyer
to join highly regarded legal ream of blue
chip FMCG CO, aworld leader in marketing
& branding. Varied, high quality work,
concentrating on IP rights in Europe & die
Eastern Hemisphere. Expetienceofpaxera
matters and/or science degree ideal.
COMMERCIAL 2-4yxs

Insurance Co, London-Great opportunity
for bright commercial lawyer to join market
leader. Supportive team environment,
varied commercial workload & excellent
prospects for career development.

JNT’L COMMERCIAL 3-5yrs

Surrey- Highly successful international
trading company seeks bright, City trained
co/com lawyer to join small team, working
in a dynamic fast moving environment.
Ini' 1 commercial & some corporate work.
IRELAND Head of Business Affairs
Successful int'I film co based in Shannon
seeks Head ofLegal/Bus Affairs. Copyright
expcedesirable- commercial involvement.
Min2yrspqe.To£45k+bens. Call ASAP.

OIL/GAS 3-6yrs

London- Market leading co seeks a high
calibre lawyer, ideally with some energy
sector exp'ce to join well respected team.

NORTH EAST 3yrs+

Leading edge technology co seeks a 2nd
lawyer. Some IT experience ideal, but
good commercial lawyer considered.

ana creative approacn are vmu.

PorfttU details of these or other positions please contact Sophie Brooks (Practice-London)
or Bridget Burden (In-House) on 0171 430 1711 or write to Graham GUI & Young,
46 Kmgsway, London WC2B6EN. Fax 01718314186.

GG

GRAHAM GILL & YOUNG

Lawyer

lie Citv

c £60.000 salary + bonus 4- major banking benefits

Our client is a market-leading financial institution with a worldwide
reputation for excellence. Maintaining a powerful presence in
London, they are growing from strength to strength and now wish to
build on their success by appointing a Lawyer to join their legal team.

Acting under your own initiative and as part of a team reporting
directly to the Head of legal, you will handle an extensive range of
banking/company/commercial law issues. It's a challenging role
playing a crucial part in sharpening their profile across every sector.

A qualified Solicitor/Barrister from a major international law firm or
financial institution, you wifi have general commercial/intemational
banking experience. This will be combined with a strong technical-

knowledge of banking transactions including syndicated lending,
asset finance and securitisation. Naturally, you'll also have a secure
grasp of legal issues and first rate drafting skills. A flexible,
supportive team player, your enthusiasm and commitment will be
central to your success

In return the rewards offered are significant So, take a step forward
with a first-rate global bank that's not just leading the way, it's
defining it

If you’re ready for the challenge, then please write, enclosing your CV
and current salary, to Toni Moyle, TMP Worldwide, 32 Aybrook Sheet,
London W1M 3JL, quoting ref: R1148.

#TMP Woridwide.

; V A**’*-' 1

PRIVATE PRACTICE

CONSIRUCnON 3-5 Years’ PQE

A senior assistant .with contentions and noo-conrenoous
experience is sought by this leading international practice.
Tlw successful applicant will have exposure ro heavy duty
infrastructure- programmes, such as power stations, off-shore
buildings and oil and gas.’ The firm is essenrially meritocratic
and offers the ggwmg prospect of eartypannership.^Refc 6002-

EMPLOYMENT ''1-4 Years’PQE

This City finn is different-from the rest, and has a young, open
and dynamic cuknne. Highly regarded for its employment
law expertise, ir seeks to add to us friendly aam. Work is diverse,
for employers and employees and is high-profile. Refc 5137- "■

COMMERCIALiUITGATlON ' 6MombsT-3 Years*PQE
This leading commercial firm with a strong European presence
continues to expand and is searching for two assistants to join.
its close knir London ream One ro handle tiir broadesr range
of commercial disputes, (he other will have a bias towards
insolvency practice. Refi 6024.

COMPANY/COMMERCIAL

(DUBAI) NQ - 3 Years’ PQE

Having completed yoar training m a “Gty" firm you will be keen
to gain some international experience ar this early stage of your
careen Your legal and commercial skills will be enhanced through
dose diem conta ct and the diversity of work on offer Refc 5839.

COMEANY/COMMEROAL

(MEDIA GROUP) 6 Moaths’~3 Years' PQE

Team (1 partner and 4 assistants) in top 15 City prac tice handles
work on behalf of media/sports and telecoms clients. The Group,
which is pan of a large corporate department, seeks a bright,
qoaHty-dtiven junior assistant with transactional experience in
M&Ak JVk etc and an interest in medo-rdued work. Refc 5989.

PLANNING • • Junior and Partner

Friendly and profitable, 13 partner Gey firm known for its
property expertise seeks planning lawyas with 1-5 years’ PQE
and more senior with followings. The firm acts for household
names in the retail, investment and development sectors. Good
partnership prospects. Refc 6026.

HZ

Hughes-Castell

International Legal Recruitmeor Consultants

London Office: 87 Chancery Lane, Load cm WC2A1BD. 3cL 0171 242 0303 Fax: 0171 242 7111
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With ten of the north west's most prominent-firms featuring in the
UK top 50 (by size), it is no surprise that our Manchester office is
busier than ever. The quality and quantity of commercial work
flowing through the north west is indicative of the spirit, vitality ond
confidence throughout the region.. The leading firms in Manchester
are handling major retail and office devefopmente, corporate deals
and commercial litigation cases every bit as challenging as those of

their City counterparts.

i ■ n Lloyd- Jones's commitment to the legd profession in the

UP Hh - total With established offices in Leeds and Manchester, our
coverage and understanding of the intricacies of trie market place

are comprehensive.

, x nnf j f ha f your next move is crucial and our policy is to
I^tfre^meand energy essential to ensure that your specific

‘requirements are met.

THAMES VALLEY

RICHARD WILSON & CO

Probate and Trust practitioner

The successful caufidare will be
of partnership material,
able to maintain our high level of service.
There are definite partnership prospects.

Contact And* 1 **

the right package and the best career prospects

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LEGAL RECRUITMENT

Oliver now to find out how we can help you find

cv to: Carol F. Lewis
Richard Wilson & Co
DXr 54650 Pxngboume
pangboorne&ridiard-

M adaw House
Pangboume
Reading RG8 7LY

Telephone: 0118 984 2266

The specialist legal
consultancy for the

North & Midlands

Tel (01204) 520200

Actis Recruitment

74 Charley New Rd BOLTON BL14BY

Trusts, lax and probate
Wokingham, Berks

Progressive eight-parmer
Legal 500 Finn requires
CoS- or pan time solicitor
with at least 3 yean PQE
to handle specialist
workload m das field.

Please apply with CV to
Deems Eyriey, Cfiftoo
Ingram, 22-24 Broad
Street. Wokingham,
RG40 1BA

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PUBLIC

COURT OF
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EXAMINATION
JULY 1998

The next examination fix
those seeking appointment
s a Notey Pahhc in
Ri glund and Wales is to be
held in London on 6th
JULY 1998.

Applicants who an
solicitor me required to
take Part IV of the
esarmtadoa consisting of
papers on 'Notarial
Practice' and ‘Bills of

PjO. BOX3553.
VJrgtote Street.
London El OGA

FnH details of the syllabus,
suggested reading fist and
also the method of
ttpp9ifinp r *lt are available

onW hum; The .Registrar,
Hie Court of Faculties.

1 The Sanctuary,
We stmins ter, SWJP 31T.
(DX 2301 Victonal

To market and further develop a thriving young
Barristers Chambers

A sed-starter witfi entrepreneurai Instincts, a fiair for marketing and good
business and administrative skins to join a common law set of Chambers based in
Leeds.

Key tasks will include:

• Strategic planning and marketing for both Chambers and individual barristers.

• Enhancing the reputation of Ctambos.

• Woriar>g effectively and In co-operation with mem&ere and support staff.

• Administration and management of Chambers indwflng tfie clerking team.

The successful candidate wffl already have a proven track record ideally within

a professional service orientated environment

Whist a knowledge of trie mechanics Of law would be desirable, more
importance wifl be placed on strong ffitarpersonal and leadership sfcflis and trie
ahfflty to work wiViin a unique business structure.

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Graveney’s arrival
revives debate
on Atherton’s role

From Alan Lee, cricket correspondent, in Bridgetown

WHILE the rest of England’s
Test match batsmen were
wlang modest advantage of
undemanding Barbados
attack yesterday, Michael Ath-
ert °n. the absent captain, was
wwe again the centre of atten¬
tion. No matter that he may
yet lead his side to victory In
the Test series, the latest
speculation concerns his role
in the decidedly secondary
one-day series to follow.

David Graveney. the chair¬
man of selectors, has rejoined
the tour party to supervise the
specialist one-day players ar¬
riving next week. His pres^
ence. allied to his previously
acknowledged preference far
Adam Hollioake as limited-
overs captain, was sufficient to
inspire another debate over
the man who surely has the
most unforgiving job in sport

Having dithered so long,
last hutumn. over continuing
as captain, Atherton was nev¬
er blind to the personal haz¬
ards of this tour but probably
imagined that his fature
would not become a daily
issue once more, at least until
the Test series was derided.
Even that privilege is appar¬
ently denied.

Graveney gave a media
conference yesterday and
found himself pressed over
whether Atherton might now
stand down as one-day cap¬
tain or even be excluded on
form. Non-committal though
he was, the impression re¬
mained that it would, in time,
be a matter for discussion.

"We have options, because

Adam has been named as vice-
captain." Graveney said. “1
will assess the situation with
Athens when the time is right
bur there are still two Tests to
come. 1 am optimistic that his
form will return and it would
be quite wrong to disturb the
Test preparations by debating
tile one-day side."

Atherton devotes so much
mental and physical energy to
Test cricket that it would nave
been wise to excuse him in
advance from the one-day
cricket, at least so far as the
leadership was concerned. It
was on the insistence of two
selectors. Graham Gooch and
Mike Gatting. rather than any
firm wish ofhis own, that he
was given this entire tour in
charge and the derision may
soon be seen as misguided.

No man can endure indefi¬
nitely as captain of a losing
England team, especially
when short of runs himself,
and the scrutiny of Atherton's
every word and action has
resumed in earnest. The Test
match that starts on Thursday
will be another examination of
his character, the sort he
habitually relishes.

Graveney defended his cap¬
tain's decision to miss the
three-day match that ended
yesterday, saying: “If he wish¬
es to prepare himself with
decent net practice. I am
perfectly happy." And. in
truth, proceedings for those in
action at Kensington Oval
have been nothing more than
glorified net practice.

The final day. watched ai-

BRIDGETOWN SCOREBOARD

BARBADOS: FVat Inntiga 473 (or 6 dec if? I
C Holder 158 PAWolaceBS, RL Hoyts 64.
FL Roller 60)

ENGLAND: fira Irvings
A JStewanc Hauer b Courts . 52

M A Butcner ftsw 0 Rafrx*..79

•NHuMancGnifithBBtarpow. _ 45
GPThorpecHoylebGibson.. .. 58

MRRanvvakashc Sub b Rotor*. —.44

A J HcffroaKe M Hoyle b Rwd.45

tflCRusselbRotock ... .7

ROB Cion not out.10

A R Cadcfcc* not out.. . . . 0

Extras (b 6. lb 6. w 1, nb 19)... .. 32

Told (7 wtts) _^_372

A P Cowan and C E w Stoenraod a bar
FALL OF WICKETS' 1-117. 2-188. 3-228. 4-
286. 5-351. 6-3S7, 7-371.

BOWLING' Gibson 24 4-5-79-1: ColSns 16-
1-80-1: BiagiovB 15-1-67-1. Reid 35 2-9B4-
i. Rotor* 19-6-48-3: Retier 1-0-2-0.
Umpires M Jones and □ Holder

most exclusively by an ad¬
vance guard of England sup¬
porters. meandered meaning-
lessly to stalemate, as was
inevitable after the refusal of
Barbados to make a challeng¬
ing declaration. England set
our to bat through the day and
almost everyone relevant
made some runs.

There were two areas of
concern. Despite blissful bat¬
ting conditions, nobody went
on to make what would have
been only the second England
century on tour — the scores of
the top six ranged from
Ramprakash’s 44 to Butcher's
79 — and Jack Russell tailed
again. He made only seven
before falling to the erratic leg
spin of Terry Rollock and his
batting is increasingly negligi¬
ble in his defence of the
wicketkeeping pasition.

The most significant news of
the day emerged from a meet¬
ing of the West Indies selec¬
tors, who derided to replace
both their opening batsmen in
an otherwise unchanged
squad. Sherwin Campbell and
Sruan Williams have been
dropped after playing the last
14 Tests together, sdectorial
surgery Easily justified by the
lack of a single substantial
first-wicket stand in the series
to date.

England, however, may not
be awed by those chosen
instead. Clayton Lambert, the
Guyanese left-hander, is 36
and played his only Test ar the
Oval seven years ago. Philo
Wallace, the Barbados cap¬
tain. made his debut against
Pakistan in Rawalpindi late
last year and has not been
picked since. Both are compul¬
sive aggressors, which should
at least guarantee an improve¬
ment on the dire entertain¬
ment level of yesterday.

WEST INDIES (tom)' P A Wallace, C B
Lambert. B C Lara (cap!), S
ChanderpauL C L Hooper, J C Adams.
□ Williams, I R&shop. CEL Ambrose, C
A Walsh. D Ramnarine, RIC Holder. N A
M McLean.

Tendulkar maintains the tempo with an aggressive pull in his hmings of IS not oat

Tendulkar puts India on brink

AUSTRALIA yesterday expe¬
rienced one of their worst
days in Test cricket since
England outplayed them at
Edgbastou last June and are
in grave danger today of
losing tiie first Test to India in
Madras (Simon Wilde writes).
They lost three wickets in tiie
final hour after India spent
the day scoring freely before
declaring at 418 for four and
leaving them 348 to win.

Australia may be the unoffi¬
cial world Test champions but
they would gladly fold room
for Sachin Tendulkar had he
been bom in Brisbane and
not Bombay. He outwitted
their efforts at con tainmen t at
every turn as he moved se¬
renely — and sometimes vio¬
lently — to an unbeaten 155 off
191 balls before Azharuddin
called a halt

“It is difficult to stop Sa chin
when be is in such an attack¬
ing mood." his captain said
later. “There can be no doubt
that he is the best batsman in
the world. Most of his

hundreds are brilliant" Un¬
like many of Tendulkar’s Test
centuries — of which there'
have been 15 in 59 matches - —
this one may be rewarded
with victory, as Australia,
after an exhausting day in the
beat, quickly lost Slater,
Blewett and Taylor.

KumMe dismissed Blewett
with his first ball and Taylor
with his tenth, the last of the'
day, and should be a key
figure today. -

It may require a major

innings from Steve Waugh,
another of the world’s best
batsmen, if Australia are to
escape, although India must
howl better at.the taO. than
they did in the first innings.;

Tendulkar, who hit 14 fours
and four sixes, built on the
good work done by Sidim.
who took the attack to Wame
the previous evening. Warne
conceded 79 runs from 22 .
overs yesterday despite bowl¬
ing defensively from round
the wicket

MADRAS SCOREBOARD

INDIA: Bra Innings 257 (N S SHhu 62. N R
MangiH 53. R Oravtd 52)

Second InrmgE

TN R Mangta lt» b Blewett..18

N S Stchu c Porting b Robortaor_64

R Dravtd c Haaty b Wame__56

S R TencUitar not out . 156

*M Azhamek&n c S R Waugh

b M E Waugh.. 64

S C Ganguly not am ..... ......30

Exnw;tblf£ba.nto7].. 31

Total pwktodacl_ 418

FAU. OF WICKETS' 143. 2-115,. 3-22B,
4-355

BOWLING; Kaspcowicz 14-642-0; Ratal
9-1-32-0; Robertson 27-4-02-1; Warne

30-7-122-1; BtaweU 105-36-1; ME Waugh
9-0-44-1; £ R Waugh 8-0-27-0

AUSTRALIA: Flrat innings328 (I A Hen* 90.
M E Waugh 86. G R Robertson 57).

Second Innings

M J Sbtor b Srireah__13.

*M A Taylor c atnah b Kumbta ....... 13

G S Bewatt c OraMd b Kumbta ...-.LV. 5

P R Retar not out_... ....... 0

Total (SvMa) 1— -_ L. 31

FALL OF WICKETS: 1 : 1B.I*3Q;3-3T._ ’
BCMUNG: Srinatft 64-9-1; Shiah
ChmJwn 4-2-120; Kunfcta T.4-WJ-2; Relu
1-0-10. . . ■ .
Umpires. S VBrkataraghayan (India) and .
G Sharp (Engsnd).

poorlyfera-ijeawa neonfe
day.TfirreWHaari^Tttiisan^ -
today, wheti- cnly' nan
■prevent thfc 'mevitabfc Tut- :
come.-. ; A..:.• e.

. Pakistan would havfe had to
surpass - tekv achievement ,
against Australia -a* Karachi 3
nn 1993, whril they gained a -
memorable victory by making
315. for nine. - It was. soon: ■
apparent that there was scant-

dhahce .'of JjhaL Indeed, a
defeat in four days appeared '
to be their lot at one stage.

_ AfterAf^ayingr 3yith ;,-;stidi
dtscipfine at Durban, Paki- •*
Stan's batting here has been -
dismaL Dismissed on a decent"
pitch for 106 in the first in¬
nings .they lost foeif first-six ,
wideetsfor 93 yesterday. -Had
Hudson not. dropped biza-
mam-ul-Haq.at third slip bfr-\
fore hehad scored and, then
Saeed Anwar at deepish mkL -
wicket when on 3L fo^ «ftuld. •
well have been aneaiiy finish. .

“We played the way South
Africa’s crfcketersshouldplay
— aggressive and hard," Bob
Woohner,. their Coach,. said A
He would have liked, • ideally;
to have taken, the lead to. 420 7
before declaring 9- Hkeevery- -
bcxfrelse, he is respectfuf of
Pakistan's innate talents. Kal-
lis. who scored 69,-incfucliDg '
seven fours, and AckmnanA
who made 42. made sufficient
.runs before Waqar. Younis
took three wickets after lunch.

Be is -the one Pakistan
cricketer who need not re¬
proach himself, having fori?
isfaed with , ten wickets in a ;
Test for the fifth tone. He was
required - to tat-agairiU test
night,■ .Which will not Ihave
pleased-him. His side was not
helped by A&mir Stfoail hav¬
ing to go in downfoearder -
owing to injury, but the woe-

*as; leg-before
- Ip a deveiiy disguised slower
Util focan-Dcnaid,' but Saeed
: Aiiwdr, the one batsman to
_ ccme, xeariwd a: half-century
bracae he drove extravagantly
riat Donald^and was wefl hekf
first 1 slip; Wasim Akram.
' promot e d in spite of a lack of
. match-practice, was taken at
foe wickea. down The.leg side;
-Rashid Eatifr- 7 . whose pair
emphasised thathe should not
.tie in the.side, was caught at
gully 'off a ball that Adams
7 tbsBod considerably. Little re-
main&fbr'today.'

SCOREBOARD

SOUTH AffUCA: FVst'Jnrdngs 293 (W J
Ounte 8S;-M VBoucher 52; Waqar ,

•Yam 6 tor 7 Q. .C

SacarvfTnrireaB"

GKksten c Rashid b Azhar.„__44 .

;AMBachwcBaaWdbVtoq«....-.11

J HKaRs o Rashid bAjhar_6S

H D AcKcnrafl C kBBmam b Azhar._ 42

A CHudsbn bW^arV.........:.."4

•WJCrortonot out 7

SiMftaflodtbVtoqar- --:--7

NV Boucher bvKqa—

Bdraa ff) 1 . b 6,-w t, nb 1 CJ.._L...^.J 8

total (7 wkts dari _-206

FALL OF UACKEIS: 1-17, MB. 3-170,
4-188.6-187,6-198, 7-208. r
BOWUNG: Wadm Ahnn TS3-37-0:

Wbqar Torts 17.44^4; Shcrtb
-Akhtar 16-1-58-0; Azher Matanobd 15-0-
49-3; AamlfSobaB 1-1-0-0.

PAKJSTAN-. First Innfens lOS ff 1 S da
~VBen(6tor2^. • ^ " - T ' - -

- ‘O.-jt-uI liMkwM

- oocono inrenga

Sae8d-ArwrercKa«8bDona*J ..v. 65

■ Saz Ahmed Km> b De-VHBara .1_; 15

InzatTiarrHMIaqtaBDtidwbAdamB 4

MoinKhfflilbwbDonakf__1

-Wasfrn Ahrem c Boucher bPdtack ^. 5

Azfiar Martnoad not out ____-30

AsmifScMtowb Adano

-tRwhfcl LffiSI c Kate bAdarra_0

watsfeToorts not _ a ±

Total ( 74 «W 8 ) 120 99

FALL OF WICKETS'. 1-38, ^67. 3-70,
,4-7|iT581.0jn. 7r1tn..: % .

BCWAMa- Donald 123^21-2; Potodt
16-3-30-1; Da VWore 11-4-2L0; Adaro
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RACING: NEWMARKET TRAINER ENTRUSTED WITH 60 JUVENILES FOR GODOLPHIN

By Richard Evans
Racing correspondent

gives backing to Loder

THE latest

« . , chapter in the
uodolphm story unfolded yes¬
terday when Sheikh Moham¬
med disclosed he is sending 60
t^o-year-olds from Dubai to
Detrained by David Loder.

The allocation means: the
Newmarket handler will haye
to ask owners of two-thirds of
his existing 95-strong string to ■
their horses away so he
has sufficient boxes for the
newcomers. In future, he is
likely to be training only for
relatives, Edward §r George,
who owns one of two yards
from which Loder operates,
and Godolphin.

The surprise move flows
from the shortage of space
Godolphin has at its Moulton
Paddocks yard in Newmarket ‘
and the high regard in which
Loder is held by Sheikh
Mohammed.

Although Loder has won 12
group races with three-year-
olds — including lour group
ones — since taking out a

Loder: highly regarded

licence in
reputation 1

riber 1992, his
'been .built
t an outstanding
record with two-year-olds. -
Embassy, owned fary .Sheikh
Mohammed, was last season’s
trip two-year-oW fOly and Blue
Cluster, who also earned foe
Sheikh’s maroon and white
silks, was the champion juven¬
ile fityy in 1995: -; .

Until now Godolphin’* two-
year-olds have enjoyed mixed
success, partly due to lack of
facilities. Last season, most of
their juveniles were kept at
Kildangari Stud in Ireland,
which was not ideal

Simon Crisfard, the Godol-
phin-racmg manager, said:
“We osily have 44 boxes at
Moulton P&ddocks in New¬
market. Sheikh Mohammed
and She&h: Maktoum have
added David Loder to take
care iaf about 60 twayear-olds.

“We are looking forward to
a successful association and
are sure he will do very well.
He is z brflfiartf trainer oftwo-
year-olds and Sheikh Moham¬
med has asked him to do the
job because he has enjoyed an
excellent working relationship
with him in foe past."

At the end of thdr two-year-
old queers; the Godolphin
horses will return to Dubai
and the best'will probably join
Saeed bin Surocnr as three-
year-olds—while Loder inher¬
its more juveniles. :

Half of this season’s Dubai

RICHARD EVANS

Nape Mutanassib
t4JQ Exeter).

Lack oif.V rehear'aatng is
. a Wasy .-wHt-Jura*

and 9 k

NIS: Choke

-£L2Q Exeter) '

intake will arrive at Loder*s
yard by foe end of this month.
The remainder wiH follow a
month later. “They are a
promising bunch of two-year-
olds and we are pleased with
them. In foe years to come
they will hopefully, form the
backbone of our stable.”

Meanwhile, there is likely to'
be up "to six months of uncer¬
tainty after the decision by the
Office of Fair Trading to refer
Ladbrokes' controversial pur¬
chase of Coral to foe Monopo¬
lies and Mergers Commission
(MMQ. The p r ospect of a
MMC inquiry, disclosed in

The Times yesterday and sub¬
sequently confirmed by White¬
hall sources, was hailed as a
victory for the punter by critics
of the £362.7 million deal
John McCririck. the Chan¬
nel 4 pundit who has been
vocal in his opposition to foe
merger, said yesterday that
.Ladbrokes should abandon
the deal and he called on the
Tote to step in “and restore the
‘Big Three’ by ensuring choice
and competition for punters".

However, even if the MMC
inquiry leads to Ladbrokes
selling the 833 UK betting
shops it bought from Coral,
there is no way the Tote alone
could buy them. It recently
borrowed £50 million to buy
134 shops from Ladbrokes and
its maximum borrowing limit
would be £100 million. IX h
sought outside help — from
venture capitalists — foe Tote
would probably lose control
Ladbrokes faces an uphill
battle to persuade foe MMC to
approve the sale of Coral and,
at best, could face having to
sell another 100 shops.

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Sheehan on bridge

By Robert Sheehan, bridge correspondent

A Great Britain squad finished as the top women^ team In foe
new world transnational open Swiss teams championship at the
1997 world championships in Tunisia. On this deal Su Burn of
the Britain team persuaded a Polish former world champion, to
go down in an unbeatable game.

Dealer South

*10 4
VKJ974
♦ K3

*Q JB4

IMPS

Contract FoirSporte* by SooB*.

Laacfc tain of apadas'

South opened One Spade and
rebid Two Diamonds over
North’s Two Club response.
Thereafter North drove on to
Four Spades. .

Greta King for Britain
found the best lead of a trump
against Marek Szymanowski.
The spade went to * e 9 ue f!
and ace and Szymanowsta
crossed to dummy with a club
ro lead a diamond to foe eight
ten and king- King Jed her
remaining trump and
declarer won m hand and
crossed to a top club to lead a

second diamond. ,

If East takes her ace ot
.diamonds she can play a third
trump but declarer just giy
up a diamond and has
tricks. And ninety-mne de¬
fenders out of a hundmd
would have done exarfy tlwi
seeing no way to beat foe

hand. Su Burn played foe
diamond nine smoothly and
declarer stopped to think.
Alter much agonising he de¬
cided that East would not have
managed to defend this way
with her actual holding, so
ducked foe diamond. Bum
wasted no time in playing a
third trump and nonr she
made two more diamond
cricks to take foe contract one
down. - - -• • • ;

□ The EBU’s ranked pairs
competitions were played at
the weekend. Winners were:
Grand masters: Peter lee and
gob Rowlands (Surrey). Pre-;
mier life masters: Donald
S medley and A lex Hogg (Der-
bys) life masters: Cohn
Cheek and David Ha mper
(Avan). National masters:
Stove Allerston and Nick Fbr-
ward (Worcs).

Ry P hffip Howa^

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NEPHaNALYSIS
■ a. Study of parallel cousin
relationship
b. Analysis of mutated
chromosomes
-t Analysis of doud cover
WERDEROBE
a. Medieitd doset
]b. Excrement of a badger
jfc German rye bread

jUNSHi

a. Social imperative to rrapecr

b Raw strips of red meat
able sujade

c. Honours i

metanoia

tSSSISS—tt—

Answers on page 50

Bv Raymond Keene

CHESS CORRESPONDENT

Diagram of final position

Anand leads

After completion of 13 of the 14
rramds of foe elite tournament
at Linare s, Spain, the defeated
challenger for the Fide champ¬
ionship. Indian grandmaster
Viswanafoan Anand, has
seized the lead. Scores are:
Anand 7/11: Shirov 6fa/Il:
Kasparov and Kramnik 6/11:
Swidler . 5hfl2; Ivanchuk
4h/ll and Topalov 3h/lL
Shirov, who has led for much
of 'foe tournament stumbled
in round 13. losing to Swidler.
White: Peter Swidler
Blade Alexei Shirov
Linares 1998

.1

2

3

4

5

6
7

a

9

10

11

14

15

84

Nf3

Bb5

Ba4

0-0

Bb3

34

cS

d4

Ma3

ax05

Nxb5

Fte.1

Roy Lopez

85.

a b e d • f g
Oxford win

A further Oxford win from foe
Dark Blues* victory over the
weekend.

White: Ben Morgan
Blade Joel Ouaknine
Varsity match
March 1998,

Sicilian Defence

roil

%

a n

21

oa*4

Nxc7

NaG

KaJ

29

30

31

S3

34-

35

36

37

roii

NT5

Qd3

Rll

Oo4

64

c3

04

0334

exefi

Nc3

Nt3

Bc4

0-0

Bb3

Be9

Qd2

Ne5

RW

Bh6

B<q7

c5

BB

cxri4

efi

NI6

Bfi7

Nbtf7

Nb6

te

Bb7

Fte7

Kxa7

N63

Hi

Qb2

bxc3

Qxs7

13

R*C2

a3

Khl

Oe5+

dS

QaS

Nxtfi

Nxc3

Rxc3

035

Fbec2

Rxc2

w-

Rb3

DfS

Stack rasO^

Female

□ Raymond Keene writes on
chess Monday to Friday in
Spoil and in the Weekend
section on Saturday.

.

By Raymond Keene

White to play. This position is
from foe game Wege —
Schneider. Austria. 1997.

Both kings are unpleasantly
exposed, but White’s pieces
are much foe more active. ’Hus
feature of the position how
decisive. How did
continue?

Solution on page 50

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(£5.475. 3m 61) (10 luimefs)

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1997: ON MY TOES 6-104 J Fred 1)4-1) R Fnw 8

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jyi M»4 Wuu Tartoh ffitn II. soB). Swee Ufflo Briar pullad up in cbMn

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turtle a Fnfcefima (2m I11 lOyQ soil) wlh Caduiry Caste (1 Ob Muse oS) 7U13id and 8onw
(4b beCef oB) 4119ft. Rosewar 30 UJtn o! 13 » Writer's Destey hi handicap hurtfo at LiaNMd
3( 1HW. good). CaOm Castle 51 48) <H 15 to Code oi Magic in selling turtle a Tauten

f2m 31110yd. good). Catemy Castle 5148) ol 15 to Chdeoi ^
iaa If. sottj mtn Bonny (Mb berter tfl Si 5tti UrtunUy teat The&aater u n 12-aBner sefong

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nandiiap trardle at Pfajnpbm 12m It good). Bonm 64110th oi 15 to Totally Ywrs in danng
hurtle a Leicester (2m, good to sefi). Lowbric 5’4I 4ft rt 14 to Minas's Madam m seftng
handicap hurtle al LecesSer (2m. aril mft Afcn's Mkrar (Bb belter off) 141 7Bi
MSS QWJEE fao teli at fte Srri ha bne. can mart amends

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(£2.742: 2ur 3f 110yd) (18 nmnos)

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Usecred Sep li-1 AnK CPSta. 25-1 tftarj

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to Sued Cart Mipfiy m narten tarrjle a Rtovrcir (3n dHIOnf. heart) Sarasoo Stofm 2J412nd
to tojor CtBFce m-rrHitoitTunJie rt Tastes (2m It, CWd town) vtti Arete Qiaiter (teiris) 251
78). fata B Easy 39T 6ft to IQngs FD^BOdy uNH Rat m d Lioghrtd (2m 110yd. good to soft)
Tied For Time 23113& to Percy Pafteepa in MUts race aUtontiroton Bm IIQyd. good to sol]).
Veiaor 25) 681 to Mster S enm orSrii tn fH U race at tonton Attrt (2m II. teavy) mft Hora
FoglwiyiloeiS) 7118ft CuteIfeSeomdouHrt up to nmcehirttori Worcesta (2m«. good):
(nmsly 7*il 4ft to S^En Mnzjrri in NH Ha race a Woreeaw (2m. good 1o sob)

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anaieu han&cap chase al Wncarton (3m II 110yd. modi; prewncty 3<l 5Ui ol 8 to Galabson
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handicap fondle al Kempinn (2m 51. rood to fern).

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(£3,625. 2m 3 110yd) (8 runners)

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to Angela in handicap hudle d UUuxetei (2m a 110yd. soft)
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Gem bed Devon Peasant VFI m 16-runner novice hurtle al Esder (2m II 110yd. good to sol!)

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5013234 SPIRIT LEVEL 71 (F) (J Pftno) J R Payne 10-10-13 .

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vnrse ofli 471 6IA Bomba Cfeiger 191 3nl ol -9 to Befowtenm in amateur novice forte a
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at Eatentwn 13m 11 Oyd, good to Dim) Brt^Ura 53J 58) of 13 lo Shore Parly m noma forte at

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Caactrl In iignftcap forte d FontneU 12m 21 DByd. good) The Brewer 1513rd ol 13 lo Emesl
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tanteap chase a Fwtestaie (2m 3. good id soft), prewowiy ail 4th at a to Hold row ferb m

handier eftasd a Neman Abbot (2m 51110yd, heavy)

THE BflBNER goes well here and on gain to Wri course success

Dunwoody 74 to head Festival jockeys

RICHARD DUNWOODY has been installed
the 7-4 favourite by Coral to win the London
Clubs Trophy as leading jockey at the Chdien-
fiam FestriaL Dun woody's rides include
Dorans Pride, Florida Pearl and I’m Supposin.

Ton) McCoy, the champion jockey, is
second favourite at 4-1 while Adrian Maguire
is a 9-2 chance. Likely outriders include
Andrew Thornton at 40-1 and Thierry
Doumen, also quoted on the same mark, who

will be riding a strong Cheltenham raiding
party from France.

Coral bets: 7-4 Richard Dunwoody. 4-1 Tony
McCoy 9-2 Charlie Swan, Adrian Maguire. 8-1
Paul Carberry, 16-1 Norman Williamson, 25-1
Mick Fitzgeraid. Carl Llewellyn. 33-1 Tony
Dobbin, 40-i Thierry Doumen. Andrew Thorn¬
ton, 50-1 Conor O’Dwyer, Timmy M urphy, 66-1
Enda Botger, Graham Bradley, Jason Titley.
Richard Johnson, 100-1 bar.

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Thompson
appointed
at Sheffield

By David Maddock

STEVE THOMPSON has
been confirmed as the manag¬
er of Sheffield United until the
end of the season. Thompson.

who took charge of the Nation¬
wide League first division dub
for the first time in the FA Cup
quarrer-final away to Coven¬
try City on Saturday, replaces
Nigel Spackman, who re¬
signed last week.

It had been widely expected
that Spackman would return
to the job but after a six-hour
board meeting, a statement
confirmed the appointment oF
Thompson. Further humilia¬
tion was heaped on Spackman
by announcing that his play¬
ing contract which had four
months left to run. would be
paid up immediately.

Spackman resigned
because he was forced to sell
his best players, but had
indicated that he would be
prepared to return if certain
conditions were met after
Mike McDonald resigned as
the chairman of the fiootbalJ
dub.

The Manchester business¬
man, however, has remained
in effective control of the dub
by retaining his diairmanship
of tile pic. and that seems to
have ruled out any reconcilia¬
tion with Spackman.

It seems that tiie new board,
with Kevin McCabe as acting
chairman, could still not meet
Spackman's demands that
there would be no further
disposal of players and hinds
made available to bring in
new ones.

Thompson was delighted,
but stressed that he had not
undermined Spackman in any
way. “Football is a cut-throat
industry and when a manager
resigns it is always difficult to
take over from a colleague.” he
said. “But it is an unfortunate
industry I’m working in. and I
don't want to be cast as a
villain. I waited until the
eleventh hour to see if they
would be bringing Nigel
back."

FOOTBALL
Wok-off 730 unlaw stated
Nationwide League
Fiat division

Sundertand v Birmingham [7-45) ._—
Second dWaion

Bristol Ravers v York (7.45)-—

Third division

Darington v Shrewsbury ...

Doncaster v Scarborough---

Auto Wind sc reens Shield
Area finals, first leg
North

Grimsby v Burnley (7.45).-—

South

Walsal v Bournemouth (7.45} --—

Representative match

Nationwide League under-21 v Italy

Serie B mckar-21

(at Chariton, 7.45)—.

The feeling persists, how¬
ever, ■ that the board sees
Thompson as a stopgap until
a more permanent suocessor
can be found. Lou Macari
confirmed yesterday that he
has spoken to United, and the
strong suggestion is that he
could be offered control at the
end of the season, if not before.

John Spencer, the Queens
Park Rangers forward, has
joined Everton on a month’s
loan, with a view to a perma¬
nent move. The Merseyside
dub will have to pay a fee in
the region of £i million if they
decide to keep the Scotland
international.

Teny Venables, the former
England coach, will decide
today whether to join Crystal
Palace. Venables met with
Mark Goldberg. Palace’s pro¬
spective new owner, for the
second time yesterday to dis¬
cuss his role with the FA
Carling Premiership dub.

Goldberg has offered
Venables, now working with
Australia national side, a five-
year co n tr a ct to coach Palace.
If he accepts the job! Steve
Coppell, the manager, would
move aside to become director
of football. “Teny and I had
another good meeting and a
lot of progress was made.”
Goldberg said.

Darren Barnard, the Barns¬
ley defender, has been called
up by Wales for the interna¬
tional against Jamaica at
N ini an Paik on March 25.
Mark Hughes, the Chelsea
striker, has been left out of the
squad to allow him to prepare
for the Coca-Cola Cup final
against Middlesbrough on
March 29.

WALES SQUAD; F Jones (Southampton),
A Marriott (Wrexham). 8 Jeradne (Huddora-
Md Town). R Page (Watford). K Randy
(Queens Park Rangare). C C ote m n
(Futiaml. R Edwards (Bristol Cty). A
Wiliam (WolvartwBnpton Wanderers). J
Robtaan (Chariton Aifteoc). J Oner
(Everton), R Savage {fwkvuar City). G

City). G Taylor (Sheffield United).
Saunders (Sheffield UnRad).

Crewe build success on solid platform

TODAY S FIXTURES

Vauxhafl Conference

Cheltenham v Farnborough (7.45).

Kettering y y bom) [7.45)---—

Sough vWbkhg (7.45) ...

Bars Scottish League
Second dMrian

Forfar v foremass CT.

LMngfiton v Queen Of South --

Qydebarfc v East Bis.........

Thud dMaion

Montrose y Ross Canty ....

DR MARTENS LEAGUE: Premier dMstore

iffivtatotx
London v

Havant Waterioovto v Tonbndga Angels

(7.45) . Midland rfriatorc Boduorth v
SoChuU Bora; Evesham v Htodday Unted

(7.45) : Shepshed D v Slaflord (7.45).
League Cup; SemMtai*: Fhat lag:
Draston v Radcftdi Second lag; Margate
(3) v Btohtey (0)

UNIBOND LEAGUE: Premier dMatan:
CcJwyn Bey * AJWncham. Brn dtabtarc
Mattock T«m y Parsley Celtic: Netartdd v
Wtvftay Bay: Traffiad r Grata; AJbion »
Great Hanvood Pia sk terCe Cup: Sand-
SnaL test lag: Btyth Spartans v Rwcom
(7.45).

RYMAN LEAGUE: Premier dhMore Car-

Town (7j
.7.45); Romford
Thame Unted (745). Second Addon:
Banateed v Huigerford; Braking v Marlow
(745); Eaton v Tooting and Mteham;
U*rrin Town v TTbny (7 45); Weakfctane
vwiham (7.45) Herd dMdon: Caratafey
Town v Avaisy (7 4^; CortaOwn-Caauj** v
H Henywtead (7.45); Raid Unlad v
Homduett Haritord v Ftadatel Head*
). Lewes v Harlow (745); Ware v East
rock (7.45). Quradtsn Insuranc e Cupc
cond tea: Boreham Wood
1) v Oxford C«y (2); St Albans (0) v Sutton

£45)

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MARTIN RCKETt

David Maddock
on a club that is
a model for the
discovery of talent

I t is seven o'clock on a
damp Cheshire evening.
As the mist slips off the
bland agricultural plains that
isolate the grim, industrial
mass that is Crewe, the town's
footballers huddle in their tiny
dressing-room.

They will step on to the
compact Gresty Road pitch in
half an hour, exposed to 5A00
supporters. They are waiting
for a team talk from then-
manager. but they will wait .
for a while yet because be is
nowhere to be seen.

A familiar story perhaps,
managers slipping away for a
quiet scotch before 90 minutes
of tension. But not Dario
Gradi. the Crewe Alexandra
manager. He has loftier
diversions.

The manager is standing,
still,. in the middle of the
Astroturf pitch behind 'the
main stand, directing the de¬
mented traffic around him. He
is coaching a bunch of eager
nineyear-oids and is absorbed
in tiie task.

This is life at Crewe. The
first team is a focal point for an
incredible success story, but
Gradi knows that to maintain
that success, he must channel
as much of his great energy
into the lifeblood of tiie c(ub—
its youth structure.

Today Crewe travel to Peter¬
borough United in the fifth
round of The Times FA Youth
Cup. In some ways, Peterbor¬
ough's achievement in reach¬
ing such an advanced stage is
even more remarkable titan
that of their opponents, but
there is no luck in Crewe'S
advancement

Gradi knows that his tiny
dub survives because his
dedicated staff continues to
unearth jewels in the face of
increasing competition
from predatory larger dubs
who have begun to realise
that producing young play¬
ers can pay spectacular divi¬
dends.

In the past six seasons
alone, Crewe have found —
and sold — such talented
players as Rob Jones. Danny
Muipfry, Dde Adebola, Rob
Savage, Neil Lennon. Craig

Holland, the youth-team coach, makes Iris point to members of the squad during a training session at Gresty Road

HB. «Rc*brered mark rf CfcHw* HA. Utanuty omral by CUcrap. fttew York. USA

Hlgnett and Wayne Collins.
Together they have generated
more than £7 milli on in trans¬
fer fees. “We are a small dub
at a high level, and we have to
find players to survive,” Gradi
said.

“We spend perhaps
£200.000 a year on our youth
structure and, far a dub of our
size. that is an awful lot of
money. Bat it isn't just tiie
money, it is the structure that
needs to be put into place. A
dub like ours needs to see
results for the investment and
that means players coming
right through into the first
team and beyond.”

Crewe estimate that they
need to sdl one player for a

LEAGUE OF WALES: TNS v FJjt Stow
Vate v inter Cribto-Tet (at Mertfiyr TydS Fq.
WWSTONLEAD KENT LEAGUE: Feel
rfvtefon; ftjfcastona IwJcta v Deal (7.45);
Heme Bay v Owham (7.45); Hyta v
Faveraham.

UNIJET SUSSEX COUNTY LEAGUE Hut
rtetefan: Arundelv Lttte ha mpM n ; Hafetem
v Emitnrna Ton Honhmt YWCA v
Swrohant.

SCSEWFK DHECT LEAGUE Piwrfar
rfvteio re Chard v Bridgwater Qrare v
Bridport MangotelMd United v Badcwef.
JEWSON EASTHW COUNTIES LEAr
GUE Premier dtetafon (7.45):'Groat Yar¬
mouth v Diss; Harwich and Rarioaton v
Sudbury. Kston v Nera nn ricB t ; Lowestoft v
Halstead; Sudtxxy v Walton; Tptroa v
W oocfatdgg Tram; Wiratam v Fakenham.
UHLSPORT UNITED COUNTIES LEA¬
GUE: Premier dteMort Boater* v Yaxley;
Fold Slparis v KenpsW . I l otaech v
Stanton* M Bbckstone v Wetogborough-
NTBtLMt EXPRESS ALLIANCE; Chase-
town v W Kid PoCck Knyperatay V v
Bcfcftnare St M (7 45); QkSxiy v Bksndch
Town (7.4S)

ESSEX SENIOR LEAGUE: Premier *
viaion: SaBran Walden v Savutndgeworth.
IBNERVA SPARTAN SOUTH MDLAND8
l£AGU£ Pramtar cflvteton aotrih: Henwef
v U tengdon Boro; BarttogsldB v Si
Mwgareebury (7.4S): Brimedown v
Araensham (7.45L Premier dhrtaton north:
Wehvyn Garden v Langford (7.45)

ARNOTT INSURANCE NORTH LEAGUE'
FMMteEOinionTBvPMli
NORTHERN COUNTIES EAST LEAGUE:
Premier tfiriaiofc Uvereodga v HucknaB
Tront North Ferity v ShsfEeld; Osselt
Tore* v Arnold; Petering v Brigg Twm;
Thaoktay v kteBDyMW.

TVETWES FA YOUTH CUP: nb round:
PeBtxaough v Qewa
AVON MSURANCE COM8WATX5N: FM
dMatorc Araeral v Srendon {Ml).
POttnrs LEAGUE: net (Makar
Manchester Ctty v Covenoy (at AMidum
FC. 7X9- Second dMafonc Bradford v
Corfste (7.0).

RSH LEAGUE COCACOIA FLOOCUT
CUP: SenMnafac LWidd v Qtenavcn Cat
The Oval); Cttonvaa v Bseymana (el
Seaviewi).

SCHOOLS MATCH: Boodte A DtaYhama
Cupc FVtefc Aadktey v Boton (at Northanp-
fon Town FC, £L3C)

RUGBY UNION
ABad Dunbar Premferahip
FtatdMsion

NowcasflevSatepjq-

RUGBY LEAGUE

THOMSON ESG UNWSWTY MATCH:
Oxford v Cambridge (at AMeOc Ground,
fkhmond, 730)

OfTHERSPORT

BAOMNTOetAI Enctad ChempionaNps

(at Snnfcghas*) *•

BASKETBALL: Budvratanr League Sir-
fwighan BtAte v Sheffield SwfcsfT'^D)
ICE HOCKEY; SuperieaoM
Group A: Nottingham Psrtare v Shedteto
SteHea j?L30); Nev*ca«ae Cobras v Ayr
Scottish Eagles (7 JO). Group Bt ftaeknei
Bees v CartBT Devfc p.3£0; Ba
Bean v Manchester S&xm pJQ.

substantial transfer fee to sur¬
vive. This year, they have sold
Adebola to Birmingham City
for El milliom and can afford
an Astroturf training ground
from tiie proceeds.

However. Gradi argues that
it is not just financial invest¬
ment that is required —and he
is supported by Steve Holland,
his youth-team coach.

“Going back ten years, there
weren’t dubs who saw the
future .in youth that Dario
did,” he said. “We have had
our structure in place for ten
years and it is now paying
dividends. Others realise that
it is financially benefiaal to
produce your own players —
especially because of Man-

BASKETBALL

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION (NBA): Altantt
10) CtowlandflflE Inelm 104 Boston i00:
ChBtatle 10B Nsm Jeresy 100; LALtl«ire9B
Detroit 89; Setflta 99 Iftmasota 98 (CTT):
San Antonio 82 Portland 78; Wncouvsr 113
Toronto 106; Wre ftngtan 100 Phtatopaa
Bl: Chicago 102 Naur Yoik 8P; tA Cgppare
100 Denver 88.

BUDWBSBUEAGUE: NmcasUa Eagles
106 Gystrf Pataca 91.

UNFBALL TROPHY; Rnafc Sheffield
Shads 82 London Tohos 79.

NATIONAL LEAGUE: Man: FM dhWon:

Brixton 88 Mid Sussw 71; Plymouh 89

Teaaakto 83: W ara n hiMu 58 Rfchmond

107; GuBdtanl 80 Cwentry 79: MW Suiew

97 Teeaaide 107; Oxford 82 Wastovjster

57: Rymouto 89 Stevenage 83. Second

dMdo re Cfw ad ngton 64 London 88; South

Bank 82 Boumemouto 79; Swindito 88

Stough 88i Wdwrtsmpton 97 Northamp¬

ton 61: Stough 77 Cheolngtsf M8 Sotert
103 LftWxcX 76; Thames Vafey 66 CartMT

C 98; WoNsrisTtoton 87 Flintshire 81.

Women: Hrat. dMaion; Ipswich 42
BteTtotfi a m 72; NW London 70 SpNtnoffw
79; Northwnpten 57 Rhondda 58; NotV»-

ham 5« Shaffiekt 84; Thamaa WOey ft

Incaatar 70. Second dMaion: Chelmsford

50 Sotara 41; Doncaster 52 Sheffield 42;

Liverpool 66 WanchSKer 57; Plymouth 78

WandsMrth 40; Spaffiana 81 Richmond
56; Tyna end Vtar 73 Can» C 75

BOWLS

SWANSEA: British indoor champion-
ahtaK Pain: SsmMbiate: Scotland (W
GSo««jr and R Carty fat Ireland
Batteteby and □ CaVH) 18-17; Walea (D
Karting and J Gtwrtfeiju) bt Engtend (A
Sprtngefl aid G Grace) 20-11. Triples:
Sarta-tinafac Wstea (H Price. S Haas and J
Poor] bt katend (M Nutt, J Taftxft and S
Coleman) 23-13: Scodaid (W Buinen. D
Feroherscn and D atmetf) tt England p
Shatgotd, AYffite and T Alcock) 21-10.

CRICKET

TOUR MATCH: Jotannesbum Ain day o#
toraa): Gauteng 296-7 dec end 2034 dec;
So Lartwn 2*3-8 dec and 138. Gadeng
beat Sri Lartrana by lia runs.
SUPBBPOTT SBBES (DnN day of toort:
Nrobretoy. NaH 379 and 239-4 dec (E
Saowert 61. J N Rhodes 60 not out);
Griqualand West 4259 dee apd 1655 (M
Aitlv SB; C Tenon 442). Matcn dram.
PRESW97TS CUP (final dm- ol tout);
Georgetown: Guyerw 450-B dee (5
ChanderpgU 111. CL Lambert 106. C L
Hooper 100 and 64-1 dac; Ttekiad and
Tobago 211 (S ffenoonaft 68; N C
McGaneS 5-61) and (Ragoonath 98. P
Smmone 52 McGtera# 5«2). Guyana beat
Triotoad and Tobago by 21 runs.

CYCLING

Pftff&ttCE RACE: Second aten
Aforeereau to Sen. ITO-Bcm). t, □
Oxabteiia (Sp) 4tw 25mki 24SOC 2, L Aue
EaQ ax2sec3,FyteidenbrajctB (Bd) S; 4.
EMacrten (Fi).S. R Uasst (B), 6, L j2£tet
(Fr) efi same kma Leecfing orereB poaiV
ions: 1, Vendanbraicke 4hr 37mfo saaec;
a JtfsbBI at 12ssc; 3. B Boscanfti (SwRz)

POOLS FORECAST

16 QPF vSndndon

17 SxtfUdv Rearing
IBStodffiortvjwfch
18 WbMsvOrana

Satoeday Mandi 14

Coupon N* Sxaro. bracat
FA GARLflX G

PfSUBSSHP

1 A Via v C Palace .1

2 Bansieyv South's*!) X
3BofanvShe«Wod 2
-4&erton«rSaclten 2
S No u caa tievOarontiy X

6 Tdtarha m y Lvapool 2

7 Waa Ham v Chelsea X

8 VWrr&tedcn v I&castar2

NATIONWIDE LEAGUE
FKST DIVISION
8 Btadtard v Bam'oham X

10 HuddTU v Tranmoe X

11 Norencn vWBrorn 1.

teNotrmf irBtey ..1

l3Qtydv Stoke 1

14 P Vale v Man CIV 2

ISPoiTtmYtvMdifsfaroX

TRara CHANCE tame team* Bams-
ty. Newssdc vhst Hant B nOota .

HuddarefcM. Portsmouffi. Norihimplon.

Preston. Daringron. Ayr.

BEST DRAWS: Bombay.- Wbi Ham.

MieUriWadd '

rWJO9OT0cl. rOTSTOUH. UKV^BaI.
AWAYS- Sheffield Wadneaday. Btockbum,
Umpod. Ipaancto Oktam.

SECOND DIVISION

20 Btean'mlh v Wtataroi

21 Briffisl Cv BrtstotR 2
SgactyvLe» ■

23 Carede v Srardord

25 OTflhten v Chaaftid
2B'GrimtyyVfctar_

27 Norih’paan v BfadtoT
2BRertonvYok

29WfSfocd vSatyod

SaWganvOWtem

31 w^eart»wPi)*wuh t

■ T)0)O CnASION

32 BatoafvBridMon 1

33 Carnta'gB vactaah pa2

34 CMffitw Doncaster A

35 Charter v Nods Co 2

38 Cbtohacnir v Uaoc’ifldi
37 Darinrfnnv Torquay X

39 Eaeisr v Hut 1

39 KarttopoQl« Swansea 2

BELL'S

SCOTTISH LEAGUE
PtBAtBIOMSaON
40punrbvvAbentoan 2

41 Hearts vKtinamock 1

42 ktotare^v Rangers 2

43 S!/stone vrtfaemitei i

. RRST DAflSON
4*AwvAWrie
45 CundeevG Motion
48 FaKrkvRaffii
47 Paffidk « Si NBaen
483MogwHtenatan

SECOND OVISION
49Ctydey to w w aa CT 1

HOMES: Acton «a.Noreton, Nottingham
foest CbtenL Sheffield UMted. CarMe;
Gfiagham. Cam G»tor.

FIXED 0006: Hoorer AstotHfita. Ptor-
wrCft-Cedited, Qffintftin. O n*t Away*
ShaffiM WedMSty, Uwpori, ip tacti.
Dmar. Btehstey. Wb« Han, PStemouh

Vines Wright

Chester United’s example —
and they are scambluig to

ratrh U^li”

Gradi .concurs. His first
.team, in the Nationwide
League first division and
dreaming of tiie play-offs, is
made up of kids from the
yocrh team, young cast-offs
freon bigger dubs and players
signed from non-league
football.

Kenny Lust, a first-team
regular at 17, will appear at
Peterborough. Seth Johnson,
Mark Rivers. Steve Garvey.
Kevin Street and Gareth
Whalley have all progressed
from the youth team to tiie first
XI “In the past we have had
some outstanding individuals.

FOR THE RECORD

27; 4, L Dtiaux titfa) seme tfcne; 5, Aus
28; a A ZQOe (Swrttz) 29.

FOOTBALL

ftmday^ tele reeuta

ITALiAN LEAGUE Lazto 2 AS Rome a
SPAMSH LEAGUE; ADAttfo MeofodD Bells
0; Tonertte 0 AMetie BK»e> 2
G394AN LEAGUE: VfB Stotlgari 2 VfL
Wbltouna 1; ScheBra 041 Boyem Munich 0.
DUTCH LEAGUE: FC Votondem I Sparta
Rotterdam 1.

PORTUGUESE LEAGUE; Ferense 1
Benflcal. '

GOLF

MlAMt DoreftRyder Open: Loaring tfoal
•cores (US unless stated): 278: M Bradley
71,66,70,71. ZTBcJ Huston 70,8B, 73,87*

B Meytsir 72. 70,88. 6B. 281: V Sin^i (Fiy)

71. 68, 72, 70; M Brtslw 68. 71. 71. 71; S

CWc 70. 68. 71. ZZ ZBZ O Lave « 73. 72;

70,67;SHoch72,66,74.70 283: T Herron

70, 67. 78. 70; J Furyk 77. 82. 73. 71; L
Mottrace 73,67. 72.71: J Cook 71, 66.74.
72; R TwavSa. 71,72,72; T Woods 70.69.
71.73 Otar*core«296:NPrice(Z* ti)71.

70,77,7). 293: N Faldo (GB) 72.70.74.77.

297; A Lyle (GB) 71. 74,74,73

ICE HOCKEY ~~

NATIONAL LEAGUE (NHL): Caroifna 3
Antatoi 1; D^Ug 1 Rioenbt 1 pi);
PWadeltya 4 Pttsburgh 3 (OT).
SUPS1LEASJB; Ptey-ofl& Gnxqs A: Not¬
tingham 3 top Z Grotto & MancnBStei 6
Bracknell 2? Besjngskta 2 Card* 4. ■

ROWING ~

SCHOOLS HEAD OF THE RMER RACE:
Long Couree: 1, St Edward's I2rr*v34aac
trecCTd); 2, Afaingdon 12:48; a Hampto n
12:4a Otar dMaion w in ner s : Bghta
Second eights: Eton 13:13 Third atahtc
Eton 1338 amiar 1® Radey 13:10.
Women's junkie Lady Beanor Hofies
14.09. Quads Junior. Wyd^e 1313
Junior Iffi St George's 1351 Women's
Junior long’s, CantEBlwy 1438. women's
junior 18 : Lady Eleanor Notes 14-49.
Coxed lours; Junior Westminslv 1424.
Junior 16: Morerajffi 14:49. Junior now
ice: Vfec &rinater 1S0R JWor IS Novice:
St EdwanTs 15:41. Women's jirior.
Ktagcon Qrammar 1522 Women's junior
1ft Habentesher'S, Monmouto iGm.
Short coutsk Bgbts: Jirtor 15: Rattiey
620. Jinor IS nostoe: Eton 900. Junior
1C King's, MtmbiedQrt ft<9 Hfomen’s
Junior novioe: WertnUnTfer 9:30 Quads:
Junior 1& Lancaster RGS 8:40. Junior 15
nodee: Durham 8B1 Junior 14; Khtfs
Chester 9-11. Women's junior novice:
Westminster HMB. Woman's Junior 15:
Gkueester RC WZ. Wsmen'ejimtar 14:
Lady Etaenor Notes 032. Coxed tours:
Jurear 16; George Heriofs 907.

SNOOKER

and we have the same in this
.side,” Holland said. “But i
think the team around them is
. better, the quality aii'the way
through is higher."

Crewe beat Tottenham
Hotspur fold have also dis-
. "patched Manchester City.
- Birmingham fold Sunderland
. and if they overcome Peterbor¬
ough. they will face ah FA
Carling Premiership dub- in
the semi-finals. An unequal
contest, maybe, but then
Gradi fold his-Staff have been
fighting the odds for years —
and winning.

' FIFTH .ROUND.'

RESULT. Arsenal OLedcto Unted 1.
FDCTURES: Today: Peterborough v Crane
Marcft ia Everton v (pBitfcd . March 28:
Chaisea v BtacMxm .

- . SWIMMING

RIO DE JANEna World
.Merc P iarolyte-- 50m: 1. F . .

2153sec. G Borgec (Bi) 2196.3, RDome-
tec (Bi) 22.43.2DQnc 1. Bargee. 1-48. IS 2,
F Saez ®r) imn 4867sec; 3, t Dunne
CAus)iiC23 800m: 1. L Lima (BO &0B 43;

2. M Rossofino RQ &Q6 7Z 3, A AngatotO
(&) 8:1055. Badndroka: 50m; 1, SThe-
Hte (Gat) 2&04SBC; Z A Msssura I&)
2523; 3. Rftauri (G») 25.51:200m: 1. M
Wouda (HoB) loan 57-34sec; 2, Braun
157.63,' a R Romero (Bt) 157.81 Braato-
stroke IOQctc I.JKntapalGa) 101.78;a
IMMetar (Sr*^ 113251, 8 R Afaemetby
(Auq 1-03 65 BuKorCy: 100m: X. D Sfer»-
tiev OJta) 5233 a ec: ZJ Katfaer (Hd) 5970;

3. Lome (Aus) 53.9S torfviciid medtey:
200m: 1. Vttxjde treat58 539ec; £ 0 Carte-
son (Snu) £00-86;. 3. Durnte 25453 ■
Women: Frewtwte: 100m: 1. K Mafaenea
(Gei) 5523sec; 2. C POB 1C Rica) 5ft48; 3.
S Osygus (Ger) 56 49.400m: l,K'Weghub
fHofl) 4rrtn 1221sec; 2. PoB 4:1250: 3, J
FSpon (Br) 426 07. Badotrotar ,100m: .11
A Buschclsiie ' fGerf 15116: .2, R
Maranneanu (Fr) 15X75:3, L Crespo (Br)
15425. Breaststroke: 50rrr l, P cormre
(Bt) 335Bsec:2. E Bcxpo {Br) 34.49; 3, G
Mret (Am) 3454.200m: 1. Coma 237.65.
2, Bargo 229^1.3, Mrel 2:4236 Butterfly:
50m: VA Busriictiiil (G«)27 7738K 2; A
Prwtma (Hoi) 2722. 3. Y Htavacoua (Cz)
28.04. 200m. 1. MP Parayra (A/g) 2rren
18.41eec; 2, Hawacoira 2-18.96: 3. P Stea
(B») £10.09. IndMdual medley; 100m:. 1,
Hbvacoxa 1042; 2, Ya Khxrtrava (Ukr)
154 43: 3. Bongo 157i16 400m: 1.
Klochkova 4:5025: 2. N Yatouteva (Russ)
.557.^: R fi*aHo (ft) 5.1153.

BANGKOK ThaBand Mastora: Fkst
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(Eng) 5-0, SDara

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1.

FA to look
at videos
of Cup-tie
flare-ups

■ By Russell Kempson

PATRICK .VIEIRA, the
Arsenal midfield player* and
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, the
Leeds United striker, could
face disciplinary foition from
the Football Association as a
result of. incidents during the
FA Cup quarter-finals at the
weekend. The FA fe to review
video evidence before deciding
whether further, action is
warrimted.

Vieira was involved m a
fracas at tiie erid.of the draw
against West Ham United in
which he appeared to lash out
at John Moncur, tiie West
Ham midfield player.

“I thought the ref had
awarded- a free kick when, in
-fact, he had blown the final
whistle." Vieira said. “Moncur
. then came over and barged
into me. I’d been having a row
with Lampard throughout the
gam e and. at the tmd, he
punched me.”

Hasselbaihk missed a pen¬
alty for Leeds in fife closing
stages of the M defeat by
V^verhampton Wanderers at
Efiand Road on Saturday..
Keith Curie, the Wolves de¬
fender. immediately said
something to him and
Hassdbauik appeared to

head-butt Curie.

Vieira is free to play in the
replay at Upton Park next
Tuesday after originally being
told that he would miss the
game because of suspension.
Paul Durian, the referee who
cautioned Vieira in tiie FA
Catling Premiership match
between the sides last week,
has since deemed the booking
“unjustified”, after reviewing
it on video. i_

The FA Cup semi-final be¬
tween Wolverhampton and
Arsenai or West Ham wifi be
played in Villa Park an Sun¬
day. April 5. with the kidc-off
at noon. The other semi-finaL
between 1 Coventry City or
Sheffield United and New¬
castle United will be at Old
Trafford (3pm).

Bradford City and Bury
lucre been fined £25.000 each,
L2O.O0Q of which is suspended
until tiie end of tiie W98-1999
season, as a result of a brawl
when tiie teams met at Vall^
Parade on December 13.

SPORT

TABLE TENNIS

BATH:

D Dooglas (Weratatataa) bt T Toro

Bales) 21-11 21-17, .17-21, 21-15 Hnrf

SvKJbfEtooglas 18-21.21-10 21-16,15-21.
21-18 Dou&cs: Final; A Cooks (Derby-
oWre) and D Douglas {WaretaksHrel bt G

Hetben fB&ushret andT Young tBoksttm]

2Ma 21-8. Vtenren: Ousw-tinb: L

Lomas (BCridnei WH Lower (Starts) 19-21,

21-15,21-11,21-15, GSrinrartz IBaksNre)

bt L Radford (Esse*) 2M8. 21-18 19^1.'

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Deaton 15-21.21-18 21-16.21-8 .

TENNIS

SCOTTSCWLE Arizona: Frontdn Tempte-
ton Ctassfe: Final: A Agasa (LG) br J

Stotert3erg{Aus)84. 7-6 ~

MXAN WELLS. CaBorrtte: Evert a*
Saeond round: S Tastud (Ft) fat J Mated-
Dewas ft) 83.1-6. W; D wnRoost (Bel)
bt B rnjfas (Austria) M, 6-0; A &jgn»am
fcbpari) U T.SnyderflJS) 6-1. «. 81; A
Coetaer ISA) U A hOet ft® 6-8 9-1 C
Mattaz PrttlMA Vento {Venl 6-7. 7-5,
6-3; R Droconr (Rom] bt T Per™a (Bua3)

itorxne) 64, 68 M Bata (GM btl
(Arg) 4-6,81^6-4.

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Ireland opt
for settled
approach

■ RUGBY UMON: Warren
Gatiand, the Ireland coach,
yesterday named an
unchanged team to meet
Wales in the Five Nations
Championship in Dublin on
March 21. He said it was a
vote of confidence iii the men
. who lost narrowly to

France in Paris oh Saturday.
Q Chris Simpsjn-Daniel, ■

19. a former England Schools
captain, makes his debut
at scrum half for Newcastle
tonight in their Allied.
Dunbar Premiership match
at home to Sale.

■ BOWLS: Richard
Corsie skipped Willie
Galloway, his Edinburgh
team-mate, lo an 18-17 win
over Roy Baitersby and
David CorkflL of Ireland, in
the senri-finals of the
pairs at the British Isles
indoor bonds

championships In Swansea.

■ TABLE TENNIS: Lisa
Lomas, who won the English
national women's singles
title for a fourth time oh.
Sunday, announced
yesterday that she would
retire after the European
championships in April and
become a member of the
England coaching team.

■ REAL TENNIS: Julias
Snow, of Great Britain, trails
Robot Fahey, of'

Australia, 5-3 after the
second day of the world
championship challenge in
Melbourne and most win
aO four sets to he played
tomorrow.

■ cYOUNG: About of flu .
forced Lance Armstrong, of
the United States, to
withdraw from the Paris-Nice
race yesterday. David
Ebcehairia, of Spain; won the
1705km second stage.

H CRICKET: Sussex have*
agreed terms with Richard
Davis, 31 tiie leftarm
Spin bowler, to add strength
and experience to their
°*re-day squad. :

II ROWm& Steward's,
Oxford, retained their Schools
Head title in jecord time
Yesfettiay. finishing I2sec
ahead of Abingdon. .

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Christopher Irvine meets a woman taking charge in a male-dominated sport .

SPORT/ENGINEERING 49

A ^ra&tholicpriss;

Geoff.Hatoru
wielded the whistle
in die Varsity rugby
league match last yir the

Oxford and CiunbridgewEIJ be
maintained toni ght when Juba
^ ect ? nes ft* first woman

to take diarge of the fixtSe^

^ ,■ ls foremost among

H&L '?&*?* 30 - str °4

refe^ng .fraternity!
compares keeping a good
dean, game between 26 men
^ job as a nursery
JT school teacher in Leeds. “Yew
should only have to tell a child
me once, and irs the same on
the pitch." she said. “Be firm,
be m control."

f*** referees, brickbats come
w?th the territory and those
without a thick skin can
perish. With women referees,
who mainly operate at youth
level, the hide of a rhino is
necessary. Abuse has driven
several to put away their
whistles for good. The hardest
task facing Lee and colleagues,
who set up a national women's
referees' association four years
ago. is increasing die numbers
of women in blade
^ “Some do drop out because
■ r 1 of the abuse from crowds and
players, but weYe trying to
educate the dubs," Lee said.
“What male referees don't face
are the attacks on your gender.
Generally, I don’t get prob¬
lems from players, simply
because they know me by now.
For those who try it on, you
make dear just who’s in
charge."

Her love affair with Hull
Kingston Rovers was cut short

interest breaks new ground

«• §

m

II.

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Lee lines up as reserve referee before the recent under-18 international between Britain and France. Tonight, she takes control of the Varsity match

by aretruilinentai^ieal by the
Hall referees* • society in -a '
match programme: '“Tffey re* •
plied with words to ihe effect of .
■yes, but you Ye a woman’.
They said they had to have a
meeting about letting me in,

. which they did,.and ive been
refereeing for 13 seasons."

As well as being one of the

student game's leading refer¬
ees — The abuse is more"
educated,"-she said — her
grade-three status means that
Lee takes charge of National
Conference amateur games.
She refereed two early-round
ties in the Silk Cut Challenge
Cup this year. Although she
has been a touch judge at

alliance and academy games
in the professional set-up,
refereeing at first-team profes¬
sional level is her ultimate
goal.

Her playing days as a three-
quarter for Fulham Women, a
team she helped to create
while working in London, and
later Hull Vixens, were cur¬

tailed by injury. As well as
development of the women's
game, she is the Great Britain
women’s team fitness condi¬
tioner and will be. touring New
Zealand this summer, as well
as putting in several referee¬
ing stints.

“Refereeing the Britain
women In Australia, when

they won the series there in
1996. was my persona] high¬
light," she said. “Doing the
Varsity match is a huge hon¬
our for me. Ill be talking a lot.
imposing myself, insisting on
a good ten metres and dean
play-the-balL Foul play is nev¬
er tolerated, but if you’ve still
got 26 players on at the end.

the referee must be doing
something right."

The fixture, at the Athletic
ground. Richmond, has been
won by Cambridge for the
past four years and ihis year is
effectively a title deader for the
Hogshead Student Rugby
League southern division tide.

Oxford; who have been
helped , in their preparations
by Peter Walsh, the Hull
Sharks coach, came close to
breaking their rivals' domi¬
nance in an outstanding en¬
counter last year. This year,
they have a settled side, with
marginally more league expe¬
rience titan their opponents,
and look to have a good
chance of ending the drought

CAMBRIDGE LWNBtenY: A IVMlater
(VJhdgifi and MagaceJenel. P Pulton
IBetymsra Academy and S) CJthafme'&t, A
BktweS (Bn&von GS and Homert o n). M
Hkn IDome Anars, Newcastle and
Cams). J Flood (Wfaicesiw VI Form Cofl and
Peterfiot/sei. P Moran ttuswaner GS. New
Zealand and Hughes Hail). N TTmte*
tBwrtMtfGS and Jesus caplari: A Foot#
(Buckingham GS arc Chnsl a). H Jones
iQueen Elizabeth s. ear net and
Magadeissnei. J Cocks INewngmn Coa.
New South Wales and Si Edmund’s). H
Hauls (Bournemouth GS and Christ's). T
HU [Tonondoe and Jesuai. U Count (Si
Bamwtamew s. Newbury and Jesus) Sab-
stOutes: J Merrick (BunngTi Cbd and
Hushes Hal). J Crane imeneson GS.
Glasgow and Josusi. B Oun (Stockport
GS and Ceiusl. R George rSwansoa GS
and S» Edmund's)

OXFORD UNIVERSirr: I Uatog
(Winstantey and Hotfoitfi B Wdsscaw
Heeds GS and Nevq. I Ramsbotksn
(Carmel Co*. Si Hetens and Pt Cffltenna's).
S Yomnv lASenon Grange ana S Cross), J
Hu* [Bolton GS and Quean's;; M Pfamb
IpnxMnef. NewSDuffjVZaias and NuffiafcJ),
S Fanner (Bangor and Pembroke, captami.
JAldwkjfcle (Stowers dorjaaSol). G Jonas
IDean Close. Cheltenham and ELdcD. J
Hobart (Sr Educud s. Otord arid Keble). B
Molyneux (Wrctarfay VI Form Coe. Wigan
ana St CUtherirv'sj. J Sit Ires (St John
fisher Gewsbuy and Si Arne's). S
Ferguson (Wormgfan-i HS end MonsAeU)
Sufemtutes; M Mullins (St George's.
Gravesend ana GuMnci. T Brfcnerl-
Colarrtbi (Prior Fusaavt VI Form Cod and
Kebtel. N Jones (WoNerhampion GS and
Si Hugh's), G Miter (Warn** ond Udv
Maigamt Hal)

Rofero« J lee (Leeds)

SNOOKER

O’Sullivan
gets back
to business

From PhilYates
IN BANGKOK

RONNIE O’SULLIVAN, re¬
laxed and tanned after a short
holiday in nearby Pattaya,
headed a group of seeded
players who encountered little
resistance in the first round of
the Thailand Masters here
yesterday.

O'Sullivan, winner of the
Regal Scottish Open last
month, began his attempt to
become only the fifth player to
win successive world ranking
events with a 5-1 vipiory over
David Gray. As usual,
O'Sullivan was unimpressed.
“I’ve got to improve," he said.
"The cue-ball was all over (he
place but I’ve learnt that, if
you stick in there; things will
usually turn around. 1 used to
lose interest if 1 wasn't play¬
ing wefl."

Gray, 19. had his share of
chances but was unable to
capitalise. In contrast, O’Sutl-
ivan. although a long way
short of his best, compiled
breaks of 70, 49. 52 and $S
during the 73-minute contest

O’Sullivan was not alone in
progressing with the mini¬
mum of fuss. Ken Doherty
required just 66 minutes to
beat Mark King 5-0, Tony
Drago defeated Stuart Pen¬
man 5-1 and James Wattana
overcame Joe Swail 5-1.

Steve Davis, fighting to
retain his status as a member
of the game's elite top 16.
enhanced the theme of con¬
vincing winners with a 5-1
victory over Steve James.

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D R Beaghom; D J Carter. C N
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Institution of Mining
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Institution of Plant E ngin eers

M J Comns a P Kettle a G LawtancK
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W K Chiru P H ColHns: A L Dyen I C
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A P Buumont; J A Cocks: PDebb rata:
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W T onefort; a Fvareao; L F
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Incorporated

Engineers

Tire Council anaoiuices (hat lire
following, in membership of the
appropriate engineering institu¬
tion. have qualified as Incor¬
porated Engineers entitling them
to use (be designatory letters 1
Eng after (heir names:

British Computer Society

J M W Au-YcunfS S P Haynes-Khan; P
Hill: S E H«TC Flu; N Mistry; R Patrt;
PJ Shepherd.

Chartered Institution of
Waferaod Environmental
Management
A Guay ARB Page.

Institute of Engineers and
Technicians

C D Apeh J Barken P Burkett; V A
CagUaba: Y W L Chiu; R E Hopwood;
C MJhmian; R E tenner. M W H
Jones; M H LuK R J McCuUen; a d
N olaibR G SrocXen; S subrain aniam:
SW Webb; P Williams.

Institute of Healthcare
Engineering & Ettate
Management

R G Foee D Kennedy; s Lee: N E
PhlUlpsfR j Singh: P B Taylor. A
Vickers; A Webster.

Institute of Highway
Incorporated Engineers

AW Bozlter M L Bee: C R D Brinkman:
s Dave: PJ Enright; S A Gaea J A R
Godwin: R Hamuion: R D Harper: R
Meredith-Barren; J J Munslow; W
smith: RJ Spawn.

Institute of Marine Engineers

B M Allan: MYA Arslan: MRBanford:
M Blair; D G Briggs; C Brown: S C
Chat; M R H Cbowdhuiy: B G

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uKAa»un:T Ear]-, B 5 Gardner; B G
Groves; PTC Harwood; AJaJeel; S M
Johnston; T McLaughlin: P a
M itchell; D H Parnell; fo Phillips; c
Pidgeu; M H Rashid: p Slade: A a
T aberl; H G Tan; W M Thomas: R
Thompson: M WaztuUah; M E K
Weeraslnghe S E Zaraltbar.

Institute of Materials

J R Benson. D Holmes: M J Jowsey: N
Peach; B M Ward; S P Woodward.

lustitureof Measurexnent
and Control
BI Laxmaih M J Sktpp.

Institute of Qnalily Assurance
T Cany; F S NunalL

Institute of Road
Transport Engineers

P W Chapman; M J Coakham: L B
Juan: KJ Oakes A Paschal Is.

Institution of 1
Agricultural Engineers
D R McCuQough.

- Institution of Civil Engineers

G B Anderson: C M Andrew D L
Ashworth: M D Bern; C BlrehaU: G
Blumer S Booth: P Bowden. A L
Bratby: D R Bu mside: M c Carroll: G J
Carter: M i chambers: a a Chaudhryr
T a Clark; IR cooper C A Dean S J
Drennan; s J EHlot K O Falano; F
Fanylnka; M Gartner: P S Gray, a
H ail; S E Hammond: PT Hiiller. A W
Logs ley a G lanes: B W lacks: K W
Jacobs c Joyce: B Kcnni-oj-. g a
L ewis P D Lone: A J Macanhur. p R
Maonmanu D G McKay C J Mritett
M L Mildtell; M D Moore D M Moss.;

S J ostle M Prosser; f L Reynolds; N
Sell; N Shawfcat; C Sneddon: A L
Stach-Kcvttc J T STanbridge: K
suthes; 3 Sutton: D P Taratn: SK
Tayion LTee; 5 J Wblie: N J Whlmelfl;
s C Williams; S C E Williamson; l p
W oohortnn; S zatego.

. Institution of Elettroaks
mad Eleetrical Incorporated
Engineers

R a A/line s Aibenon: C A jjtosIMd; P
H Bowen: M D Bowers: L W Brown: P
D Browse M K BwaJva, PJ Campbell;
F chlfwalla; MI Codinme J F Cos D
P Crouched D H Davies; G 5 Denison;
C J DoWISng; R H Downie J Ellis: G J
Fane; R H Glddlnes; K Grant G K
Hackney M a Khalah J H Lewie D W
Lloyd: G M tong: H H M»h; S P A
Martin: M T McGhee: N D Mercado; J
R Moons C Moanten G Neil; a r
Newell: K P Nikon; P p Norris: P j
Oliver; A Ptramwihy: R Femberftm;
G K U J Perera: S B Ph llUps; A R Pope;
P B Preece; G S Praudtoefc S D
Robens: JC Sandy S Saw mygadoccG
R Sewelt S G Slbancte; TS SoitOvA R
"—ett;NSu>non;RSuiberiand;SW
; A D rhaemrs; j G Thomas: 1R

.ahia: RWallace: PM Walton:CT

want M P Weaver J wignu D WrigftL .

Instimtion of

EnginmiogUtsigirers

D C Albone K C Botgusi: P J EG
caavahu A D Ptikingiun: wvttej
C Temple man: a M watts.

Institution of Gas Engin eers

B S Bradley M P Queenan.

. CMC
LeoASDM
Metcalfe; R H M

Institution of Incorporated
Executive Engineers

a E Barter; p Boockn: p a Cain: s
Choral am pous; j Coul son: GH curry:
J G DalyPADavIdsoiuPW Davidson:
T Gsruun: D 1 Johnson: R W J
Maddlsoru p McQuillan: M G Miller;
C J Palmer; c a Rankin; c C Rossher:
M A Sampson: T FTarrant.

Institution of lifting Engineers
a D Anderson; JR Cotter. S a Hobbs J
tow|s:TH UewehroJE Morgan; M A
Oldfield; G J walntsley; A L J
Williamson.

Institution of Mechanical
Incorporated Engineers

M Adu-Saroone; K Allartlre: B J
Austin; K J Ball;* Brig; LBlackwood:
RJ Bolland: RJ Bradley GW Biuwn;R
A Bruce; SJ BursnaU; R Cawthome; p
A Comer, A RCopley A J Cowton: 1M
c res swell; i p Gorman; d BGreen; A J
Hamilton; r A Harris: D J Harrison: J
R Hustle: CMC Hatfield; D A Hattie:
M C Hear hen it. N C Hinson; P
Horton: a LHUil; A Hunt: NI Hyde: a
R Jackson; S G Jefferies: J W Joyce: G
Kennaugh: A D Ungwlth; S LLowe:
M F ATBare: A MacktonoA; C H
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B Mellon J

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a ParicenJ P Payne; G F PewnenJ w
Foot M A Price M G Priest; R Prion w
R Purvis: j K Raehse-Felsiead: D J
Rowlands; A D scon: E D Shields; p C
Simons; R J Sinclair: C B Smith; J
Starkey: S Stokes; D Sutton; Dir
Taylor. N H Taylor; K a Thompson; A
Tlnsdeall; S Tnirden J A Whrbunon.

P Watson; R A Wen born: M
Wilkinson; M Wilson; M P Wilson: R
M Wilson: a Young.

Institution of Mining Engineers
J a Coco-Stefanlak; J A shone. C E
Sims.

Institution of Pfaot Engineers ■

J Adnln: JGRBowmakrr: B LBrown;
A Bryan; D F Ewshelt A Cameron; A J
Duggan: R A Ellis: S Farrier; H T S
Janes: z H a Khan; p R Martin: J G
Miller J A O'Connor, M S Parker: C J
Phillips: L siraetayfc M J Valter P F
Waters; A JYeates.

Institutioa of
Structural Engineers
J p Blake; F Boyce l a Caution; K
Conyop; M Corrie-Falrhutsu P A
Craig; X c Devenney 5 M Faulkner c
R Gee; S D Hodgson: 1 p Hock D R
Hubbard: R CJ Humphrey: J
Humphries; s Hussain: m g t
M cKenzie: AJ Millar G C Phillips; R A
Phlpperu M D Pftier, 8 Robrriv. C C
Robinson: J Robison: D a Ryan.

J Shaw; G J Swanson: c M Taylor, s k
T ownsend; D Ward: A R Young.

Royal Amman deal Society

LP Butler C M Cooke; 1E Davis; O G
CrifflUiK D M Jones: a N Peters.

P Russell; S N Wilkie; M O Yazdani; N
S Young.

Royal Institutioa of Naval
AitJritecfc
G R Coombe; 5 D Salkac

Welding Institute
M D George n J Halnswonh.

Em

Technicians

The Council announces that the
foOotving. In membership of tire
appropriate engineering institu¬
tion, haw qualified as Engineer¬
ing Technicians entitling than to
use tire designator? letters
EngTech after their names:
institute of Engineers
and Technicians

DJ Cross: R Fernando: M Firdous; K J
Green; J Hearn; D $ Mace H K
Madhow; T sabesan; P J SpUsbury: A
M Siewns.

Institute of Healthcare
Engineering & Estate
Management
S J Beard: J s Evans.

Institute of Highway
Incorporated Engineers
T G BridgewDOd; C P Hodgson; A E
Tranter.

Institute of Marine Engineers
a A An sort sad Black: J EveretL pw
B Fullerton: I Harper. CRB Hough.

Institute of Measurement
and Control

G Lawgkau.

Institute of Plumbing

L W Barran; a Brown; P J Foster 5 P
Giles; T A Hughes: P J Keoui>h: M J A
McCormack; J F RJordan; R Siockley;
s Timmins.

Institute of Quality Assurance
DWFoggln.

Institute of Road Transport
Engineers

A Awotun M C -Colboume; R p
Collins: J Otndron: 5 EJItah; P a
E lherinRion; 1 L Fielding; I Foster. J
Freeman; A P GaJr. R Hall; R a
HlgglsoncGJ Hlndsan: R M M J ~~
Macrae: S McLone: c Mliehell: « ,
Mutasa: J O’Neill; M S Paling; J R H
Ftrrine M Robbie: D Sharp.

D J Smith: I smith; G R scannotc P
Sukllvan: P B Thompson; G C
Whitehead; C J woodcoat

Institution of Cml Engineers
D Archer R E Avery: A Sevan; L A
Brown: J w Brydon; P E coffins-. T j
Corel; P J Edwards; IR EUls; S Fraser.
D J George: 5 Hamblecort: D S Hill: M
I Mason: J C Morillo; M W
Nightingale; I A Paterson: A J
Ricketts; J M S Talc v R Tall: O W
Taylor. IS Thew; P M Underwood: A J
Weight; JI wickens.

Institution of Electronics and
Electrical Incorporated
Engineers

A R Adam; D Alien: K Anderson: R S G
Aylerr: A D Bateson; J R Braid; P E
Bnanc D c Buckley, s R cooper. R e
Davies; P R Farrington: E J

Fitzpatrick; S J Forrest; P M

GjtndldZBitws.- L S Gibson; D Glavev

M H Goodwin: 1D Gore; LT Ha-

L Howltu s W Humphries; R P
A L King; G Kyle; W 5 UK u „
Lelshmasu P C Maitham: P

Markowycz: E Mamma; T McCabe; J
McCormick: J MJnbJnlck; C p

Mo Hand; A N Mwale: P R Nash; A P
Newman: EI Nurohv- D M O'Flynn; p
G O'Gorman: C H Ong; R J Page; I R
Potter S L Ranasincite, a N Rose; g
S amukange; N A Selgnon D J Shaw;
M J smuiders: M R sobezak; s a
S tanden: B Stanton; N A Stewart: C R
Topham;N RJTumenD Vaughan; R
M Walters: K Webb; a C Williams; M
Williams: J C Wilson; M A Wilson; R
Wilson: PJ Withers; pa Wright.

Institution of Gas Engineers
A Davldge: A 5 Davfs: C McCann.
Institution of Incorporated
Executive Engineers
N G Boner. M f Dixon: C D Jeanne; G
T Jennings: D Mazond iwa: R E Chven:
TJ Thomas.

Institution of lighting Engineers
R Dunbar M P Green.

Institution of Mechanical
Incorporated Engineers

K PAvriss; M J Baker d Brumvell. a s
cavil |; A E Clark: P J dements; S w
Culmore: A w Gooding: R j R Groves:
D Harrison: D H Hind; G A Jenkins; s

Raghunadhan: C w Ransom M S
saadru: N R Smlrb; D W srewaiu D N
suihety. s B Tavenen S N Taylor B T
Temple-. G M Thomas: P N Turner: M
J Underdown: F w Wheeler. K white.
HTWllUams.

Institutioa of Plan! Engineers
S A Field: C E Gardner; P Graves; p D
Jones; a J Mliehell; P D Price.

Royal Aeronautical Society

A J Bland; H M F Plmanda: C M
Vaughan.

mmg council

The Engineering Council congratulates all those who
have received its awards today. The Council is an
Independent body which has 290,000 engineers and
technicians on its register, and leading companies, and
organisations affiliated to it H sets the standards for
education, training and experience leading to the award of
its : titles of Chartered Engineer (CEng), incorporated
Engineer ((Eng) and Engineering Technician (EngTech).

For more information about the Council write to:

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50 SPORT / BROADCASTING

.THE TIMES TUE SDAY MARCH 101998

Alan Copps on agreements that shaped Formula One history

TEAM orders and agreements
between drivers — such as
that between Mika Hakkinen
and David Coulthard at the
Australian Grand Prix on
Sunday — have influenced the
results of Formula One motor
racing since die world cham¬
pionships for drivers and con¬
structors began in 1950. Mike
Hawthorn, Britain’s first
world champion, would not
have won the tide in 1958 if his
Ferrari team-mate, Phil Hill,
an American, had not let him
through into second place in
the last race of the season in
Morocco.

That manoeuvre allowed
Hawthorn to pip Stirling
Moss, who won the race, by
one point, even though Moss
had scared four wins to Haw¬
thorn's single victory during
the course of the season.

It was not the only time that
Moss was thwarted by the
teamwork of others. In those
days, when teams sometimes
fielded up to five cars, switch¬
ing drivers was commonplace.
In 1956. Moss was again
denied the tide in the last race
of the season when another
British driver, Peter Collins,
handed over his Landa-
Ferrari to Juan Manuel
Fangio in the Italian Grand
Prix. That was strictly on team
orders and ensured that
Fangio finished in second
place to beat Moss — who
again won the race — to the
championship by three paints.

A year later. Moss became
the first Briton in a British car
to win the British Grand Prix.
In that case, he benefited from
a driver swap. His Vanwall
had started die race in the
hands of Tony Brooks, his
team-mate, who was still suf¬
fering from severe injuries
sustained in an accident.
When Moss's car broke down.
Brooks cheerfully handed over
his own and the two men were
jointly credited with victory.

Brooks said yesterday: “I
made that agreement with
Stirling because I was inca¬
pacitated and didn't think I
could keep up a competitive
pace. It didn't in arty way
destroy the raring. I don't
think that's the same as what
happened with Coulthard and
Hakkinen- Their problem

CoultharcPs co-operation enabled Hakkinen. left, to lead a crae-two for McLaren in the Australian Grand Prix

arises because the McLaren
team established such domi¬
nance.''

Although the McLaren
team has found itself at the
centre of c o n tr ov ers y for the
second successive race, the
Melbourne incident involving
an agreement between drivers
is quite different to sugges¬
tions after the decisive Euro¬
pean Grand Prix in Jerez,
Spain, last season that there
had been collusion between
McLaren and Williams, for
whom Jacques Vflkneuve took
the drivers’ championship.

Contracts between teams
and drivers usually include a
proviso that if one driver has a
chance erf 1 winning the champ¬
ionship, the other must obey
team orders. Even at
McLaren, where no No 1 driv¬
er is designated, such rules are
likely to apply. But team

orders are not always respect¬
ed. What the agreement be¬
tween Hakkinen and Goult-
hard did was to avoid the kind
of aggressive driving between
team-mates that marked the

Hawthom’stifle wm owed
muda to his team-mate

1986 and 1987 seasons for
Williams, when Nigel
Mansell refused to live in the
shadow of Nelson Piquet, the
Brazilian who was nominally
the team’s No 1 driver.

In 1986 their rivalry caused
the points to be split so
effectively that Alain Prost
stole flic title in Ids McLaren,
even though the car was no
match for the Williams. Prost
then experienced the same
problem when Ayrton Senna
joined the McLaren team.
Senna won the championship
in 1968, but Prost raised his
game and took the tide the
next year after a controversial
collision with his team-mate in
Japan.

In 1990, Frost moved to
Ferrari and the championship
seemed within his grasp until
Senna shunted him at die
corresponding grand prix.

The next season, however,
S enna showed unusual gener¬
osity when, again in Japan
and with the drivers’ champ¬
ionship already secure, he
slowed to let his team-mate,
Gerhard Berger, past for a
win.

Team owners for whom the
constructors’ title is aO-impor-
tanr will applaud Coulthard
gesture. One of the sages of
Formula One. Ken Tyrrell,
sakb "If I had been going into
a race with a team that
dominated the way McLaren
did. with an absolutely brand
new car. and my drivers had
come up to me and said they
had agreed that whoever led
into the first comer should
win. I'd think it was
Christmas. 1 *! hope they do it
for the second race. I hope
Coulthard wins and then
hope they stop it"

McLaren engineer new technical chasm

I f it had been a freezing
day at Sflverstone, you
could have understood
why the sflversvdted mechan¬
ics were so desperate to slide
heavy covers on to the noses of
their new McLarens. But this
was Melbourne in the
3(Fdegree heaL
What was under those cov¬
ers remained the mystery of
last weekend, and the layman
would have been hard pushed
to spot the secret on the back,
given the speeds that Mika
Hakkinen ami David Coul¬
thard were achieving during
the Australian Grand Prix at
Flinders Park.

The engineering boffins of
the FIA, the governing body
of motor sport dearly know,
because they approved the
designs. But even they must
be wondering just how Adri¬
an Newey and his design

Kevin Lagoa explores the reasons for the outstanding
performances of Hakkinen and Coulthard in Melbourne

team at Woking managed to
overcame roles that were de¬
sired to slow down Formula
One, giving drivers the
chanee to overtake.

By d emanding this year
that the cars stt aald be nar¬
rower and less able to produce
“dewaforee" with grooved
tyres, the FIA thought that
they would have drivers
queuemg up to get past each
other. In the race on Sunday,
they would have been able to
count tiie number of success¬
ful overtaking manoeuvres on
the fingers of one h and ,
excluding the McLarens,
which were dearly faster.

The intentions of the legis¬

lators were good, bin they
forgot the fact that whatever
the rules, the teams wffl find a
way to go faster — as proved
an Sunday, when the
McLarens were dose to trass
set last year by wider c»s, on
trade-hugging stick tyres.

It seems that the only effect
of the new roles has been to
create a technical chasm in the
pit-lane. Ferrari. Williams
and Benetton will have batod-
kms of engineers already
working on bow to get on the
pace; and if not by the
Brazilian Grand Prix at the
end of this month, then soon.

McLaren certainly had the
edge. The team already had a

more compact lighter and
more powerful Mercedes V10
engine to hand, which
allowed Newey, the aerody¬
namics expert lured away
from Wffljams, to fashion a
Iowa, sleeker car within the
regulations.

Then there was the
McLaren? twin-pedal brak¬
ing system. It seems as though
the drivers have two brake
pedals at their feet; a centre
pedal for norma] operation
and an outer pedaL There is
much speculation that, when
the (hirer needs the brakes to
bias to one side for extra grip
in heavy cornering, he hits the
outer pedal and the computer

derides how best to balance
braking to each wheel.

Other teams were unhappy
about the innovation but Ron
Dennis, the head of McLaren
simply said that it was their
“wake-up call”. McLaren
obeyed tbe rules, checking
with tbe FIA at every stage of
development, and tbe team
had merdy indulged in some
lateral thinking.

There is no doubt that &
works, as Heinz-Haraid
Frentzen discovered-Frenizen
was amazed at tbe stability of
the McLarens. through cor¬
ners, and be promptly bet his
W illiams teammate, Jacques
Vtfleneuve; that they would
both be lapped during the
race. “Jacques told me, 'No
way*," Frentzen said. The
world champion will think
twice about betting on tbe
next race.

HOCKEY: OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE RENEW ANNUAL RIVALRY WITH MEN AND WOMEN SHARING STAGE

Milton Keynes hosts Blues double bill

By Cathy Harris
and Sydney Friskin

WHEN Renwick Irvine, the
Oxford University captain, at¬
tended practice at Milton
Keynes last week, he made
strenuous efforts to ensure
that his side would be allowed
to use the England dressing-
room for the annual Univer¬
sity match at the national
stadium today.

"I want the one on the Left as

you go out to the pin*." he
said. “It has some excellent
memories and Id love Oxford
to be there.'’ Irvine should
know, because he and his
team-mate, Tom Matthews,
were in the England squad
that finished fourth in the
under-21 World Cup ar the
same venue last autumn.

If Irvine is disappointed at
the allocation of the dressing-
rooms, he will at least be
playing alongside a familiar

face today in the contest for the
Dekxtte and Touche Trophy.
Ed Whitworth was a fellow
pupO at Kingston. Grammar
School and Iming up against
them will be another Old
Kingston!an. Chris Lipscomb.

Oxford have deforced the
announcement of their final
line-up until this morning,
while Cambridge, whore 2-0
victory prevented Oxford from
making it seven wins in a row
last year, are led by Mike

Meredith in his sixth Varsity
match. Meredith has played
three times for Oxford and tins
will be his third game in the
Light Blue odours erf
Cambridge.

For file women's game that
follows, it has been a barren
spell for Oxford — who have
not won for five years — and
who will be up against a
Cambridge ride that benefits
from regular competition in
the East Super League.

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area. A synoptic s&utyoostceaaBoaly in chart form showing details
in symbolic details. “A rsnxsber of people have asked me if we are in

for a fag storm but I can assure yon that nepbanalfris has

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faeces of amuuris in foe Middle Ages. Resides among faecal nouns
from nature such as the “sprainis of an otter”, the "wajOCTinR of a
fox" and foe “cretds of a time".

JUNSHI

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self immolation. Became csfabOsbed wife fee rise of mBitaiy power,
and usually involved ore of rite sword. Tbe custom of Jnssfci fa
roughly trembled to mean "dying with the

METANOIA

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fife. Turning point that p romp ts a new Inward m n we nn -nt for
uti Eai uin g a c f iuri n spirtoal rote of Hfo-“T hroug h hey anl aaoxasfac
bad restored an andenandme of the order of Wu poem and
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and Pm ea n ua n) . Cambridge: H Ward
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and Jesue). C Ujaaonb (Kingston G5 and
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end Dow*g}. M Sheriook {Uncota Oita's
Hotptel end Gfcan). T Nenetra (hOieid
end CesaL W Badpatti ?ta ci nqhe m UnH
and S( fenunefa}. H M an ete M (Kbe
Edward VI School end Cl«e).

WikHife oo One

BBCk830pm

Bajuftid mongooses may look small arief vulnerable
butdo ncrt .be fooled. A film from the MasaiMara
m Kenya foOows these tq^eaHng link creatures as
they outwit creatures many times bigger titan
themselves in their daily quest for . food and
survival The key to 'that survival is safely in.

numbera Tfto mongooses hunt as a gang and their

solidarity- can be mscoraerong even , to fast and
efficient killers such as.tife jat£d One of the best.
sequence s shows the, mongooses advancing on a
jackal in a tightly formed scrum and making a
successful Kd fer its tegorrifated food. An even
easier meal comes from feeding off the tics on the

flieyinfiir^e.

Having It Alb Late Arrivals
BBCZ,9J00pm

juggle the demandsof family, and woric opens vrah.
a study of four women who are having, or.hoping-
to havfy their first dnJdren while fa mrir-tttkl to;
late thirties. The realisation that die biological.
dock is againstthem & combined witha iriudance
to intemiw. let alone abandon, busy and fulfiflmg *
careers. Xaty, ~a magazine, editor; and Maxy. a
manager whb. SbdL have ‘ both cocne to
inothmiood late because rarvkjus partners dkl not.
want dnldren. The ireny for iilie,wto is desperate
to have a dnld, is tiiat her stork'as a ntidwite and

m a

Cutting Edge: Boetleggers -

Channel4,9jOOpm .

The illegal import of alcohol and tobacco^raether
costs die Exchequer £950 million a yraranda has
become oor most popular criminal activity. A film
by no means without its lighter ride adores fais
lucratively fifidt trade through a cxxipkr.crf mot
called Dave who know most of the angles. Dove

The cutebut dangerous mongooseitBBO).

West caice had a stall in Romford roarket .

SStoghisfobontfaeyori^coalfcUtraL (%

SSftejlbceWd'

bootleefifaR operation there has oeen. we ai»
"June", a husband and wife team

who are stfll very mudi in the business.

Quads—a Struggle *>r life

■nv,J0.4Dpm

It may be just coincidence but on the very nf^n
BBC2iaunches its Having It Adi season (see above},

JTV nips in wifa Its own documorrtary about
parentiiaxL Admittedly Mana and Giovanna
Ayersa. vtoo . desjwte thrir Italian names and
provenance' live in Bristol, are unusual parents.
Hoping for a boy to complement their two girls,

.they found themselves with quads. The chances of
giving birth to four identical girls is one in 13
' mini <m, -and -Maria did not nave any fertility
treatmenLTheoddsofaH four babies sumvmgare
very murii shorter. Their lungs are damaged, tii^
are ootputfirtgon weight ana they must remain in
.tntenrive -care «mtfl the danger period passes.
.Meanwhile Maria and Giovanna can only-wait
anxiously at hone, hoping soon that the family ^wffl
be uamptete but knowing that when it is tbere wul
^hanrs ‘ " ”

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be hard work ahead

peter Waymark

RADIO CHOICE

The Queen of Wefahereock House

Radio 4. iQ.OOam (FM only)

Jenny Pitman is one of the more adotirfril
characters in horse raring, and. she. is'typically
Hunt in this documentary about life as alratott at
Weathercock House. Lamboum. Out on the
gap ops there are even dress tips—“th^ always.
•finish women’s jumpers and women’s coats just
below the belly button so whenever you see me on
the gallops Ive always got a man’s coot an"—and
Pitman cooks breakfast for her stable lads because
of^“housekeeper troubles”. If hbusekeepen are thin
on the ground to are stable fads: Pitman has been
hiring some from France, but it is not dear which
language Pitman l et rifl es them in. The advice of
one stable fad is suorincL Take your boOockings
and keep your mouth shut."

UBm Kevri Greening and Zoft Bad MO Simon Mayo 12L00
Jayne MJdcflemfes. indudes IZ^Opra Newsbaat 2.00 Maxk
FteddBTo 4M Onto Pbhcs 3M Newstart &30 Stave
Lamaoq; The Brafag Session UO Digital Update wBh Rachel
RoynadHAO John RadlO^O WtoiyAreia Hobbs ijOOranGWo
Warren MO Chris Moyiee *

ajOem Alex Lertsr 7M Wogan Bl 30 Ken Bnjca 11J0 Jmry
Young 1 JOpm DebUa Thrower 3JJ0 Ed Stewart ios Jota,
Dum 7JOO James Galway: Encoral UO Nigel Ogden RjODr.
tary- Ader 1 ■ CBrtuy ft» Betel AUR. See Choice .IOlSDu
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CAOm ThB Bredtort Projyanrne9J» Nfdiy CampbeD 1200
Midday wAh Malr ZOOpta Rtocoe on Rwb A00 NaBoriwidewth
Jtean Wbrricter 7jB0 News Extra 7JS0 The Tuesday Math.
Commantaiy. reports and goal new* tan the bast of torf^K’a^
acton 1OJ00 Nans TaBc Presented by K^ei Cassidy 11.00
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SuOOem Jererry Cfartc 7J00 Tbe Chris Evms Brefataat Show
10.00 Rubs MtSams IJMpoi Nfck Abbot AM Ratal Series
7M (W) Lynn Paraons (All) Ray Cotas loj»Caimfn Jonas'
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ttaoea Wraty Young vrith BB Orerton *J00 Scott CHshokn
12.00 Lomune Kefly^JXlpm Tommy Boyd 4i00 Peter Deeiay
7M Anna Raeburn MO James Whale UXtem ten Ooffns
SOO The Early Show

The'Bcriin Ahfift -
Radio 2,930pm

Programmes that commemorate another age are
always fascinating, especially when the other age
is really noMhai Jong agoc 1948, in this case, the
ycarwnen the Soviet union blockaded Berlin in an
effort to fozee foe US and Britain out. The airlift
thai followed, in which foe Western allies flew in
food and fori, was a defining episode of the Gold
War: Raymond Baxter presents this recollection,
wfajehindudes interviews with pilots, flight engin¬
eers and loaders of thetime. Baxter was based in
Hamburg daring foe airlift and he flew into Berlin
with cargo planes many times. Recipients of aid
included Mercedes Wild, seven at the time, who
recalls the arrival of chewing gum flown ^in by the
American pflot Gail Wild. • . Frier Barnard

WORLD SERVICE

BJJQihh Nwrsday 8J0 Europe Today 7.00 News Al5 OffThe
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News aiO Pause tor Thought &1S Concert Hafl and Nbhb;
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The Coiporete HendbooH &30 Literature Re- Bran (tow
Worid BAS Sports Roundup KU» Nemdesk 1030 On
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Heath Mrttere 1245 Sports Roundup TjOU Newshow 2 jOO
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ftOOem Breakfest wflh Bafey 8.00 Henry KeBy. tndudes the
Record ot toe Wade end a recipe tor spioed baked dUcken
12.00 Lunchtime Requests Jana Jones ii ftu d u o es Rstenere'
towtxjrite pieom ot music 2:00pm Concerto Tchaikovsky
(Concert Fantasy tor Pteno end Orchestra} 3.00 Jamie Crick.
Indudes Afternoon Romance and Conlinuxs Classics 530
Nowri#it7J» Smooth Classics at Sevan with John Brunninfl
8-00 Evening Concert.Sgar (Serenade tor Strings); Britten
(Simple Syrrphony) , Voudhen VlfiSama (Romance tor Mouto
&gan end Strings); GteWMan (LuSat^f),' Ader (New composi-
tton); (Rumanian Dances) 1TJJ0 V

Concerto (r) &00 Marie Grtteha

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RADIO 3

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(^mphor^ No 6 si D, Lamahn); Pod«ic..oich
LanncK Btooetey (Rute Sonata); Rachmaninov ..

. (Scherzo in 0 minor); Wflfiam Harris (Fake la toe

HeavwO; Mozart (Overture: Tbe Manage of• -
Rgaro); Adams ffhe Chasinan Dances) -

200 MeatwiwoHcs, with Parity Gore. Mozart

Symphony No 13 in F); Beethoven (VOriatione on

twee Irish Air^; Rfensky-Koraakov (Sinfonirttaon

Russian Thames); Hanoei (Concerto Orosso in G

minor); Beethoven (Rondo n Q; Mozart

(Symphony No14 in A)

10J30 ArSat of the Wewfc Ueaoa Cotmbaa fjZ/5}
HJOSound Stori e e; Grata Vteto rta n e. A took at the
artistic influence of Prince Afoart whose gnsateot •

achievement was toe Great Btoibitfon ot 1851
1200 Compossra of the Week: MacDomH and

Hanson. Introduced by B(B Lkwd

iJOOpm The Radto S Luncmftne Conotrt BBC '
Proms Chamber Music »7.^The Oriando Consort
and Fretirvorit Includes Anon, Wincheste Trapw

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Leonora Overture No 3; Pteno Concerto No 5 to E

_fl»L Emperor); SyinphoryNo 5 in C minor)

4M Voices: Bwrg and Zantwtricy Songs. Ackiame
• S^zontersopano. lain Burnside, piano. Barg
(Swan Eariy Songs); Zemfirtsfcy (Six WaSz-Songs
cjiTuscan Folk-Lyrics; Llecier. (rj

4AB Music Machine, with Tommy Pearson

IUO in TUna, wtth Humphrey Carpenter
7.15 Ihterprin Hnafote. LSO wider Daniel

Hard ing. Daniels Gaspartrti (Through the LooWng

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. Homjton's new biography of toe-poet Mattoew -

Arnold 8^5 IVes (The Unenswered Question);

athe raWonshlp between T.S. Bottfid Ezra
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O^tet in A minor); David Matthews (Sties
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laaoWooHBT’s Hour; wShJerrs Muray and Quests .
11J0 Med icine Hoar. Geoff Watte prasenta the weeWy
took at the state of haafthcare
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current affaire with John Waite
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D jJ, “Vone see much of
Dickens’s Our Mutual
Friend, which began-iis
tour-part ran on BBC2 last night?
No, you don’t understand. I mean
see* in. a quite literal .sense. The
wmole thing was so gloomy and
dimly ht that you hadto straggle

just to make out a few shapes in all

tne darkness. Perhaps that’s why 1
costume dramas send viewers run¬
ning to reread the original noveL
They want to be sure they know
whars going on.

^Yet in spite of this gloom —
maybe because of jt — Our
Mutual Friend has the makings of
another BBC classic. It recreates a
London every bit as aim and
&miy as Dickens described. But
now ironic that no sooner does-the
Culture Secretary, Chris Smith,
suggest that it might be a. good
idea if television didn’t show quite
so many costume dramas, and
chanced its arm on more contem¬
porary plots (maybe a tale of

it looks promising

political intrigue,, in which a
seemingly invincible new Govern¬
ment is-brought down ty; of all -
things, a E300-a-rofl hand-blocked
wallpaper), than bothFXV-and the
BBC launch period pieces — The;
Life and Crimes of william Paint'
er. winch ends on ITV tonight, and
now Our Monad Friend.

They could so easily have played
it Smith's way. In her afterword to
a new Pengign edition of the novel,
Catherine Wearing, the show's
producer, writes; ’’Both on the
surface and ■ subtextuaQy, Our
Mutual Friend is shockingly con¬
temporary. The opening chapter
reads like a suspense fimUer... It
may be fanafuL but I often
imagined while we were shooting
the series; how- Dickens would
have loved the collaborative pro¬
cess of film-making. And, perhaps,
how he would have rejoiced In. the
possibilities of telling stories for
that most democratic of mediums,
television.**--

‘ 'Personally. FVe always son
Pidusas as a senior commission -
ing editorr “It*s Eke this, Crispin.
Production budges E2CKL00Q, pro¬
duction expenditure £199,990: re¬
sult. BBC happiness. . Budget.
£200.000. expenditure _ £200.010:
result, BBC misery."

r earing sees our lottery
culture reflected in. the
vault to {nrtaae of Mr
and Mrs Boffin, onetime dust- t
-collectors. And “as we observe
hypocrisies and inequalities inher¬
ent in the brilliantly, tided
Veneerings’ world of new money,
again, who can fail to reflect ©n our
own boom-ond-bust political and
economic structures?" {Oh. do put
your hands denim. It’s a rhetorical)
So then why not use Dickens as a
starting point, as Tony Mardxant
did for his recent dark (metaphori¬
cally, this time) tapescy of London
life. Holding On? Or—if bringing
Dickens .to the screen is what

Joe

Joseph

ynu’w set your heart on — why not
go the whole hog and translate
Our Mutual Friend into modern
dress and modem times, the way
. Jonathan Miller does for Rigoletto
at English National Opera (obvi¬
ously, without so much singing)?

Not that Wearing, nor her
director, Julian Farino, nor her
scriptwriter. Sandy Welch, nor her
blue-chip cast have insulted Dick¬
ens's last completed novel, which

has mare than enough crime,
greed, love, duplicity and mystery
to keep you turning the pages.
Sometimes, ii all seemed to be sim¬
mering slowly last night But that
is.often the way with scene-sening
first episodes.

Maybe 1 was just missing Brian
Blessed. It’s always a pity when a
cosnune drama has no vacancy for
Blessed to slap his thigh and roar
with laughter in a way that allows
us to seenis tonsfls: its like staring
into the opening of the Channel
Tunnel.

Still, the cast that Wearing did
, assemble was thick with talent —
from Paul McGann’s Eugene
Wraybum and Steven Mackin¬
tosh’s John Harmon, to Keeley
Hawes as Lizzie Heom and
Margaret Tyzack as Lady Trppins.
Most eyes will have been fixed on
the former Brookside actress,
Anna FrieL as the money-hungry
Bella Wflfer, since it is still not that
common for soap stars to make the

leap into period drama. Sandy
Richardson of the Crossroads mo¬
tel never managed it, for example.
For an idea of how successfully
Anna Friel copes, cry imagining
another former soap star as Bella:
Kylie Minogue, for instance. OK.
you can stop imagining now.

B ut if you think Kylie
Minogue makes life need¬
lessly raid on herself, take a
look at Steve- Martin and Dave
Mitchell who — without any
apparent coercion — spent 100

days last year walking to the North

Rile, dragging a pair of 4001b
sledges behind them. We saw oil
To the Ends of the Earth (Channel
4) that they made it. becoming the
first British team to achieve this
feat unsupported. And before you
say it, they don't give a hoot if you
happen ro think "So what’”

“We know the decisions we
make on the ice could be the last
decisions we make, so they have to

be the right ones... it just gives an
extra-good feeling ro the whole
expedition." And io think that you
can get raftyjust deriding between
tea or coffee first thing in the
morning. The scariest parr of the
trip, to my mind, was not their
encounter with a polar bear (they
shot it), but having to rely on a lift
from 3 Russian aircraft to reach
their starting point at Sredniy. a
former Soviet polar base in Sibe¬
ria. Russians can prove happy-go-
lucky in the cockpit.

Maybe it’s all pan of the
psychological preparation: after
this kind of scan, it can only get
better. But not necessarily by
much. "We had no expectations of
day. so we weren’t disap-

itEd." says Dave. “It's a test of
your sense of humour." What, Ice-
Age temperatures? Hungry polar
bears? Sleeping in the same wet,
frozen clothes for three months?
Even Hale and Pace have a better
sense of humour than that

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URGING 47

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TUESDAY MARCH 101998

Northampton soften their stance in rugby union’s club versus country dispute

Players handed tour choice Guscott takes

j swipe at aU **

By Damd Hands

RUGBY CORRESPONDENT

THE war between the Rugby
Football Union (RFU) and
England's leading clubs is far
From over, but' one battle
appeared closer to resolution
last night. Northampton, who
last week said that they would
not permit their players to tour
with England in the summer
because they needed rest
adopted a softer stance that
will almost certainly leave the
decision in the hands of their
players.

That will leave Clive Wood¬
ward. the England coach, a
freer hand with which to select
for the rwo remaining Five
Nations Championship
matches, against Scotland on
March 22 and Ireland on April
4. Woodward will refuse to
consider for those matches
any player who is not pre¬
pared to tour the southern
hemisphere in June and will
spend this week speaking to
members of his squad to
ascertain their position.

However, Woodward may
yet find a fly half crisis on his
hands. Even though Ian Mc-
Geechan, the Northampton
director of rugby, has declared
that his club will not jeopar¬
dise the international pros¬
pects of any individual. Paul
Grayson may yet deride to
make himself unavailable in
the summer for domestic rea¬
sons. Grayson may wish to
stay home for the birth of his
first child, which is due in
June.

Should that be the case.
Woodward will have to deride
whether pragmatism should
take the place of principle.
Grayson is fit and playing
well, whereas Mike Can. the
Bath fly half, will be unavail¬
able against Scotland after
suffering concussion against
Bristol on Sunday, while Alex
King, of Wasps, has yet to
resume action after a long¬
standing knee injury. Mark
Mapletoft, of Gloucester, was
the England A No 10 against
Wales and Woodward is also
aware of the talents of Jona¬
than Wilkinson, from New¬
castle, who has played in
England's successful Under-21
side this season.

That is an area where
specific circumstances war¬
rant special treatment. How-

Woodward. the England coach, was given a welcome boost yesterday in advance of their r emainin g Five Nations Championship matches

ever. Woodward will have
been pleased to hear Mc-
Geechan tone down the com¬
ments last week of Keith
Barwell. the Northampton
chairman. Bawell’s derision
that his players needed rest
this summer was backed by
the 11 other first division clubs
last Friday, but McGeerfian,
who coached the British Isles
in Sou* Africa last summer,
suggested that his diairman’s
desire was to drive home the
need for player welfare.

“From what ! understand,
Clive has accepted that,” Mc-
Geechan said. “We need to

consider the state of the play¬
ers' fitness and that is the
point Keith wanted to make.
But neither he, nor I, nor the
Northampton dub. would
seek to jeopardise our players’
prospects of appearing for
England. It would be all
against ethos at this dub.
Keith would never put our
players at a disadvantage to
any other player in the J Allied
Dunbar] Premiership. Hie
dubs support a strong
England.”

Woodward offered a robust
defence of his meeting with
most of the England senior

squad last Wednesday, after
which he was accused of
coercion and bullying by the
dubs. Woodward admitted
that the summer tour sched¬
ule. embracing internationals
against Australia, New Zea¬
land (twice) and South Africa,
was “ridiculous", but it was
one that he had inherited and
he had no intention of reneg¬
ing on the commitment
The RFU has taken steps to
limit the 1999 dose-season
commitments. A similar tom-
had been planned, four
months before the World Cup,
but now only one summer

international will be played. “I
told the players that already T
felt two players would not go
on tour this summer, one for-
personal reasons and the oth¬
er because he was knackered,"
Woodward, who asked last
October if the tour this sum¬
mer could be abbreviated,
said. “I know some players are
fired. I know who they are arid
what they want to do.”

He hopes to take a party of
between 36 and 42 players,
many of whom would not be
required for the final leg of the
tour, , in South Africa. Many
will play m no more than two.

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Clubs ask president to step in

ENGLAND’S leading dubs
are to ask Peter Brook, the
president of the Rugby Foot¬
ball Union, to intervene in an
attempt to broker a settlement
in the increasingly bitter dis¬
pute that Is scarring die sport
(Mark Souster writes). The
dub versus country controver¬
sy is but a symptom, not the
cause, of the on-going feud
with Twickenham on a range
of issues.

Last night Brook said that
he would be more than will¬
ing to assist. “Ill go any-

inything. and
to anyone if it helps.” The
president hoped that dialogue
could be established betwe e n
the waning factions, despite
the fact that both sides appear
as entrenched as ever.

“We are appealing to Peter
Brook to step in.” Donald
Kerr, the chairman of English
Rugby Partnership (ERP).
said. At the same time. ERP
want Brook to launch an
investigation into the way that
the union’s business is being
run. Kerr said yesterday that

policy statements by Cliff
Brittle and Fran Cotton, re¬
spectively the chairman , and
vice-chairman of the manage¬
ment board on the future of
the game, had not been ap¬
proved by the board or. the
council “They are acting af-
tra vires," Kerr said. “They do
not have the authority to
make these statements. The
union has been hijacked by
Cotton and Brittle smd it is tfaie
duty of people to stand up to
them for the sake of the
game.”

ling dubs. However, he
: denied that any thought of
expulsion for breach of Lnler-
pational Rngby Board regula¬
tions'"had entered his head.
That would be in nobody's
interests, the players’ or the
union's," he said. But he left
no one in any doubt that he
perceives a number of the dub
owners to be responsible for
the breakdown.

Francis approves
terms for return

By Richard Hobson

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TREVOR FRANCIS returned
to St Andrew’s yesterday, less
than 48 hours after resigning
as the Birmingham City man¬
ager. He is tack cm his own
terms after a lesson to those in
football who would chase a
fast buck at any cost.

Francis said that he felt
compelled to take a stand over
what he saw as die loss of priv¬
ileges, namely a lounge area
usually reserved for players
and guests alter matches, to
corporate clients, who paid
£21)00. Abuse, verbal and
physical, directed towards his
family by some of that party,
represented the last straw.

He received “overwhelm¬
ing” messages of support from
players and supporters on
Sunday, but only agreed to
withdraw his resignation after
assurances from David Gold,
the chairman, that in future
the commercial arm will not
impinge on the playing side.
He wifi reassess his position at
ffie end of the season.

Francis Said: “Without me.
ihe players do not have any
support at all at this dub.
When their privileges are tak¬
en away without consultation
they are very angry. I would
have been letting them down if
I had not done anything. 1 1 was
prepared to give up my job to
support them."

Karren Brady, the manag¬
ing director, confirmed that
Frauds had not been consult¬
ed over the derision. Francis
protested to David Sullivan.
the major shareholder, an
hour before the game against
Queens Park Rangers on
Saturday.

“He agreed that for £2.000 it
was absolutely the wrong
derision," Francis said. “After
the game, some people tried to
barge into my room and tip
over food. They were abusive
to my wife and children and
some of the players. They
insulted my son, then pushed
him against a car. nose to
nose, and wanted to fight
him." Birmingham will ban
the offenders for life.

FIA rejects protest
over McLaren pact

By John Goodbody

Francis: last straw

THE world governing body
for Formula One has rejected
the protest by the organisers of
the Australian Grand Prix
that the McLaren team had
contrived die result of the
opening race of the season.

International ' outrage
increased yesterday over the
secret agreement between tf\e
two McLaren drivers that
whoever was leading at the
first bend would be allowed to
drive unchallenged by Ids
team-mate for first place.

David Couithard. of Brit-

Against tire odds_3

History of teamwork 50

ain, who was behind Mika
Hakkinen at the first bend,
pulled over with two laps to go
to allow the Finn to pass him
and win the race. In Britain,
punters, some of whom had
placed £1.000 on Couithard to
win, were furious and bora-
banded bookmakers and the
McLaren team with com¬
plaints.

Ron Walker, the chairman
of tiie Australian Grand Prix
Corporation, foxed a letter of
protest to the FIA that said:
“We have always maintain ed
that Formula One .drivers are
in the same category as Olym¬

pic athletes in terms of their
outstanding fitness. IPs not the
right of team owners to decide
who is going to win."

However, a FIA spokesman,
said: “Team orders specifying
tire finishing order of drivers
witiiin a team have existed in
motor sport since the begin¬
ning of the century. It would,
therefore; not be right to
criticise or sanction McLaren-
Mercedes for what it ctid at.
Sunday’s Grand Prix."

However, it did say that tire
World Motor Council (WMQ,
which oversees Formula One,
would discuss at its meeting
on March 18 whether this
practice should be allowed to
continue.

If it does, Couithard wants
to benefit He said: “1 am
expecting to be repaid. 1 could
have won the opening nice,
but hopefully wc will put this

.to bed after the next race arid-
carry on from there. After two
races we should be on an even
keel. I am nor giving away
four paints.” .

Mel Goldberg, one of Brit-
tatt leading spore-lawyers.-
questioned whether Mc&ien
and the drivers involved had
"a duty of care to those punters
who quite innocently placed
money on Couithard to win”,
adding tftai.-tegaJ action was
."possible”.

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of the four internationals and
some may be rested from ihe
remaining • Five Nations
matches. Woodward said that
he had asked Martin Johnson,
the leicester lock, who cap-.
tained the lirms in South
Africa, if he wanted to, stand
dawn from the game with
Wales last month, but. that
Johnson declared. -

. “I can’t nm the England
national team if some third
party derides players are not
avaBaMeT’ Woodward sa id. *1
have foil r eaEdnakflffr for
running the teamThcdub.
owners carrl -oeme back to me
and say fbe nties. feave 'been
changed. Whafs gang dn at.
the moment is putting a knife
to all our dreams, our asptra- .
firms of. winning the World
Cup." -

Cliff Brittle, tire RFU man¬
agement board chairman, also

JEREMY GUSCOTT, the
Bath and England centre,
said yesterday tot ff totem*
tionai players abandoned
their dubs and signed con¬
tracts pledging their long¬
term future to the Rugby
Football Union (RFU), it
would be akin to "turkeys
voting for Christmas”.

Guscott. who has declared

hfm«a4 f a vailabl e for this mm-

Boer's tour, dees not believe
that tire stated aim of Fran
Cotton. Ihe RFLTs manage¬
ment board vice-chairman, to
recrudl - an elite squad to
Twickenham,, is the correct
way forward.

GuscqtL 32, su£ "The RFU
would have fee monopoly on
players and you only have to
thru a tittle down tire fine as
a player, ft woedd be the end
of the control that the players
have. The players are pretty
ranch free agents; if they tie
with tiie RFXJ.they won’t have
that.”

At Twickenham yesterday
Cotton re it e rate d Hut tire
RFU’s policy is to saga 35
pbyers on fecrative fburyear
contracts btttwmdd net dito
rate on ham tins would be
financed.. He fifemed to cm
mest on reports that the RFU
ri TrrVinL to ruiTmd iri Iran hy
£4 mtflirta to create a war
dtott. He dsn domed feat any
approach had hem made to
Lawrence Dnfiagfes, feeing- •
land n q rt n in bat idmittrfl
that tab had hem held wife
Gary Ceonefiy. tire Wigan
and Great Britain ru g by
league player. ;

Guscott dees nottfuk that
players, while stiff anxious to
ptay for England, wwoW tan
their bads ob tire dubs. He
feels feat fee emstjag ?*»•
tracts, , which have Tn~bu3t
release clauses, are more than
i would hope that.
testy wife tire dubs
fee contacts remain p*r-
manendyiwhh tire dubs-The-
RFU would like to held feose
contracts as they da m South
Africa and-New Zealand
'• .‘The eatture of rogby here
is so different and we earned
becempftaalwtfe tbase coun¬
tries. Let titan get on tad do
what (hey do wed and fetus
try and get on and do what we
need to wfl. If players sign .
wife tire WTJ.it is Eke turkeys
voting for Christinas.

“Our culture is dub rugby.

We have tried the regional
route but there is ne identity.

We should always took to
improve our dub rugby rath-
■ er than impose dfvhfoaal
nigliy.” ....

He does not befieve that
any player wuuM eyer wffl-
iugty reject the ehaaice. of
playing for ttogbad Nor
daps he femk feat thfes wiS
farce players to-stay at hone
this summer.- - -■ -

Safe meet wife feefe Eng- .
land ce to ti^qat today. “We V)
will be allowed to make bur
own mmd upt no arinftrast-
ing. Any chib yroukfhe mad
to deny a player fee Opportu¬
nity to play for his country
and go an Inrttate ft only
enhancer fee profile of the
dub and gefepeapfethrough .
tire gates. Everybody should

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fee given fee right to pipy for
their countiy."

Guscott. who returned to
.actum only hi January after
injury, added: “I am roiuie
to tour. It Is Miy a>m««
Sense that we can’t go buck oq
what we tave said. Orve has
hofft a retatfoasirip wife the
players based on honesty.
Unless I dart understand the
contact no ooc can step are
from going on tour. I amjjcee
te igRore the dub’s advice.

“I am stiff very toyai.tofee
chfe. They have done a fot for
the playas, unHhr the RFU,
Everythaif tire-, difeo .have
promised, they
ered. I-. caaT saj? tire same
ahem fee RFU. I asa^not i
talking about CSve Wood¬
ward because eveiyting he
has promised Ire hag:deftv-
exed.” . .!;• V--,-'

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